the world. This paper describes a school-based randomized trial in over two-hundred New York City public schools designed … teacher behavior. If anything, teacher incentives may decrease student achievement, especially in larger schools. The paper …

The SEED schools, which combine a "No Excuses'' charter model with a five-day-a-week boarding program, are America …'s only urban public boarding schools for the poor. We provide the first causal estimate of the impact of attending SEED … schools on academic achievement, with the goal of understanding whether changing a student's environment through boarding is a …

Using exogenous secondary school assignments to remove self-selection bias to schools and peers within schools, I … credibly estimate both (1) the effect of attending schools with higher-achieving peers, and (2) the direct effect of short …-run peer quality improvements within schools, on the same population. While students at schools with higher-achieving peers …

-country changes in the average share of schools with autonomy over key elements of school operations. Our results show that autonomy …

Developing countries spend hundreds of billions of dollars each year on schools, educational materials and teachers …

We conduct a randomized evaluation of the effect of village-based schools on children's academic performance using a …). While all students benefit, the effects accrue disproportionately to girls. Evidence suggests that the village-based schools … provide a comparable education to traditional schools. Estimating the effects of distance on academic outcomes, children prove …

opposite-sex siblings who attend the same sets of schools—thereby purging family heterogeneity—and leveraging within … find that boys benefit more than girls from cumulative exposure to higher quality schools …