identify empirically. We exploit the assignment of students into business school sections that have varying numbers of … entrepreneurship rates of students without an entrepreneurial background, but in a more complex way than the literature has previously …

This paper provides the first causal evidence about how elected local school boards affect student segregation across … schools. The key identification challenge is that the composition of a school board is potentially correlated with unobserved … determinants of school segregation, such as the pattern of household sorting and the degree to which boards are geographically …

primary and middle school students' test scores in math, Hebrew, and English. One standard deviation improvement in …We present evidence about the ways that school superintendents add value in Israel's primary and middle schools … in recent literature to measure teachers' value added, to assess school superintendents. We exploit a quasi …

We explore the extent to which schools manipulate the composition of students in the test-taking pool in order to …

We used a random-assignment experiment in Los Angeles Unified School District to evaluate various non …

-in-differences models that leverage within-individual and across-cohort variation in shooting exposure within matched school groups to … estimate the short- and long-run impacts of shootings on students attending these schools at the time of the shooting. We find … that shooting-exposed students have an increased absence rate and are more likely to be chronically absent and repeat a …

immigrant students in the school. We propose a new identification strategy to partial out the unobserved non-random selection …We study the effect of exposure to immigrants on the educational outcomes of US-born students, using a unique dataset … combining population-level birth and school records from Florida. This research question is complicated by substantial school …

possibility that inadequate information and a flawed structure each compromise public school quality. This study of school …

using those data to measure the effects of school administrators as well. However, little research has considered the … data from a large urban school district. The paper then assesses the degree to which the estimates from each model are … consistent with measures of principal performance that come from sources other than student test scores, such as school district …

market outcomes of their students. There is no consensus, however, on how such measures should be constructed, or how the … systems. We conclude that labor market data provides information that is quite distinct from students' academic outcomes …