Participation of beneficiaries in the monitoring of public services is increasingly seen as a key to improving their … efficiency. In India, the current government flagship program on universal primary education organizes both locally elected … leaders and parents of children enrolled in public schools into committees and gives these groups powers over resource …

very similar in the 8th grade. We observe that the eventual high school graduates in this group have much better …

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 …

This paper analyzes the impact of voter-approved school bond issues on school district balance sheets, local housing … prices, and student achievement. We draw on the unique characteristics of California's system of school finance to obtain … clean identification of bonds' causal effects, comparing districts in which school bond referenda passed or failed by narrow …

This paper reviews and interprets the literature on the effect of school resources on students' eventual earnings and … educational attainment. In addition, new evidence is presented on the impact of the great disparity in school resources between … blacks and whites in the Carolinas tend to mirror the gaps in school resources …

"Accountability mandates" -- the explicit linking of school funding, resources, and autonomy to student performance on … increased resources allocated to some schools. In the 2000 school year, the average value of the award was about 60 dollars per … awards in the 2000 school year,the first year of the program, increasing total per pupil revenues by roughly 5 percent …

School choice may lead to improvements in school productivity if parents' choices reward effective schools and punish … ineffective ones. This mechanism requires parents to choose schools based on causal effectiveness rather than peer characteristics … City's centralized high school assignment mechanism. We use applicants' rank-ordered choice lists to measure preferences …

school choice plan. We find that receiving information significantly increases the fraction of parents choosing higher …We analyze two experiments that provided direct information on school test scores to lower-income families in a public …-performing schools. Parents with high-scoring alternatives nearby were more likely to choose non-guaranteed schools with higher test …

Several recent education reform measures, including the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), couple school choice … with accountability measures to allow parents of children in under-performing schools the opportunity to choose higher …-performing schools. We use the introduction of NCLB in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District to determine if the choice component had …

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 …