educational outcomes in that country. To do so, we apply various techniques (e.g., propensity score and coarsened exact matching …-term positive and economically meaningful effects on nonhealth outcomes such as education and cognitive skills. These effects are …

-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational … outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to … Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …

's only urban public boarding schools for the poor. We provide the first causal estimate of the impact of attending SEED … school increases achievement by 0.198 standard deviations in reading and 0.230 standard deviations in math, per year of …

have better academic achievement, within-school short-run increases in peer achievement improve outcomes only at high …Using exogenous secondary school assignments to remove self-selection bias to schools and peers within schools, I …-achievement schools. Short-run (direct) peer quality accounts for only one tenth of school value-added on average, but at least one …

This study examines the variation in educational outcomes across and within countries using the TIMSS mathematics tests … educational outcomes. Analyzing the association of gender, immigrant status, and family background factors with scores, we find …

impact of HCZ on educational outcomes, with an eye toward informing the long-standing debate whether schools alone can … eliminate the achievement gap or whether the issues that poor children bring to school are too much for educators alone to … effective at increasing the achievement of the poorest minority children. Taken at face value, the effects in middle school are …

reading following the introduction of accountability, and we find only mixed evidence of score gains among the most advantaged …

, there is little evidence on how key educational inputs affect the development of these skills. We present a re-analysis of …Although recent evidence suggests that non-cognitive skills such as engagement matter for academic and economic success … follow-up data from the Project STAR class-size experiment and find evidence that early-grade class-size reductions did …

productivity parameter, class size is a component of school quality, households are heterogeneous in income and hence willingness … to pay for school quality, and schools are subject to a class-size cap. The model offers an explanation for two distinct … approach in settings in which parents have substantial school choice and schools are free to set prices and influence their …