by lowering class size. The theory provides a measurable and operational way to define school quality that can be tested … their classmates do worse. The theory presented below reconciles all of these facts by recognizing that classroom teaching … ranges away from equilibrium levels will adversely affect educational output. The theory argues for a particular non …

This paper estimates the effects of school quality - - measured by the pupil-teacher ratio, the average term length … between the return to education and measures of school quality is similar for blacks and whites. Since improvements in school … reinforces a causal interpretation of the link between school quality and earnings. We also find that returns to schooling are …

percent of U.S. youths had high school diplomas in 1910, but more than 50 percent did by 1940. By the mid-1950s the United …-series variation within the United States. The areas of the United States that led in secondary school education (the Far West, Great … income or wealth, also fostered the extension of education to the secondary school level …

Using a structural life-cycle model, we quantify the long-term impact of school closures during the Corona crisis on … at later stages, and thus younger children are hurt more by the school closures than older children. We find that … parental reactions reduce the negative impact of the school closures, but do not fully offset it. The negative impact of the …

combining population-level birth and school records from Florida. This research question is complicated by substantial school … immigrant students in the school. We propose a new identification strategy to partial out the unobserved non-random selection …

that would inject private-school competition and increase technical efficiencies without cream skimming. Conditioning …. However, by adding conditions like tuition constraints such as vouchers can reap the benefits of school competition without …

To study the effects of ability grouping on school competition, we develop a theoretical and computational model of …

This paper presents an overview and interpretation of the literature relating school quality to students' subsequent … with varying school quality. A key insight of the model is that changes in school quality may affect the characteristics of … education. We then summarize the literature that relates school resources to students' earnings and educational attainment. A …