of assessing the impact of education quality, the teacher contribution to pupils' achievement and the effect of school …

Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went … countries. Relying on panel estimation with country fixed effects, we identify the effect of school autonomy from within …-country changes in the average share of schools with autonomy over key elements of school operations. Our results show that autonomy …

black schooling over the past century. To test this hypothesis we have assembled data on three aspects of school quality … 1966. The school quality data are linked to estimated rates of return to education for Southern-born men from different …

This paper: i) estimates the effect that going to a better school has on students' academic achievement, and ii …) explores whether this intervention induces behavioral responses on the part of children, their parents, and the school system …'s high school educational system. For the second, we use data from a specialized survey of children, parents, teachers and …

allowing one to address self-selection bias and estimate the causal effect of attending a single-sex school versus a similar … coeducational school. While students (particularly females) with strong expressed preferences for single-sex schools benefit, most …

We develop a framework that may be used to determine the degree to which a school choice program may harm public school …-skimming" effect is increasing in the degree of heterogeneity within schools, the school choice takeup rate of strong students relative … high school graduation rate of the students who would remain in public school. We employ NELS:88 data to measure the …

We ask whether failing one or more of the state-mandated high-school exit examinations affects whether students … graduate from high school. Using a new multi-dimensional regression-discontinuity approach, we examine simultaneously scores on …

of accelerated entry into algebra on student performance in math courses as students progress through high school …