acquisition costs and a second on learning and imperfect information. Using data on school responses to discrete signals embedded … in North Carolina's school accountability system, we find patterns of results inconsistent with the first model but …

the world. This paper describes a school-based randomized trial in over two-hundred New York City public schools designed …

. Prompted by this finding, many states and school districts have adopted value-added measures as indicators of teacher job …

school in order to avoid the negative attention they receive when their students perform poorly on primary leaving exams. We … attendance rates two school years later from .56 to .60. These attendance gains were driven primarily by outcomes in treatment …

This paper uses a natural experiment in Israel to assess the impact of school teaching resources and how it is used … suggest that increased school resources and students' spending more time at school and on key tasks all lead to increased … strategies. The evidence also shows that a longer school week increases the time that students spend on homework without reducing …

This paper attempts to reconcile the contradictory findings in the debate over school resources and school … state differences in school policy, however, aggregation implies clear upward bias of estimated school resource effects …. Analysis of High School and Beyond data provides strong evidence that aggregation inflates the coefficients on school resources …

schooling and, more importantly, the skills that they learn while in school. This paper examines studies published between 1990 … and 2010, in both the education literature and the economics literature, to investigate which specific school and teacher … characteristics, if any, appear to have strong positive impacts on learning and time in school. Starting with over 9,000 studies, 79 …

We evaluate the long-term effect of a “girl-friendly” primary school program in Burkina Faso, using a regression … non-selected schools. These upgraded schools are effective at getting children into school, getting children to start … school on time, and keeping children in school longer. Overall, we find that the schools sustain the large impacts observed …

A central argument for school choice is that families value the freedom to exercise choice and can make wise decisions …. This principle may underlie why lottery-based school evaluations, which exploit over-subscription due to excess demand … to these results. We evaluate the Louisiana Scholarship Program (LSP), a school voucher plan providing public funds for …