Italian secondary school graduates, interviewed 3 year after graduation. In these data, the impact of observable talent …We discuss how a schooling system's structure may imply that private school enrolment leads to worse subsequent … educational opportunities (talent for short), theory predicts that private schools attract a worse pool of students when publicly …

3.7, suggesting the presence of significant market power for school districts, especially over more experienced teachers … public school districts in Missouri. We take advantage of the plausibly exogenous variation in pre-negotiated district salary …

Private school students do not always perform better in standardized tests. We suggest that this may be explained by … differences between private and state school regarding organizational features that are differently suitable for students with …

estimates the effect of one Fe y Alegria school in Peru on mathematics and reading comprehension among second grade primary … pupils, between 2007 and 2012. The identification strategy is based on the fact that for this school Fe y Alegría conducted a … lottery to determine which students would be accepted onto first grade. We could prepare our estimates only for one school …

educated parents while the opposite is true for private school enrolment. Moreover, girls are significantly more likely to be … school choice in Indonesia. …

Improving schools depends on attracting high-caliber teachers and increasing retention, both made possible by appealing … to teacher preferences. I deploy a discrete-choice experiment in a setting where teachers have reason to reveal their … salary structure, retirement benefits, performance pay, class size, and time-to-tenure. (2) Highly rated teachers have …

examine its effect on students' scores on the high-stakes national exam which occurs at the end of high school - the … corrupt activities by public school staff, which was driven by financial incentives. These results match an unprecedentedly … high number of allegations of fraud and bribery against school principals, which earned the 2010 Baccalaureate the title of …

School vouchers introduced recently in some Italian regions have lowered the cost of private schools. On one side, we …