In this paper we study the long-term labor market implications of school resource equalization before Brown and school … school characteristics had a substantial influence on black males' earnings and educational attainment measured in 1970 … southern-born blacks who followed behind them in school by just a few years …

is one of the largest school construction programs on record. I evaluate the effect of this program on education and … education and earnings. Children ages 2 to 6 in 1974 received 0.12 to 0.19 more years of education for each school constructed …

In an important and provocative paper, `Does Compulsory School Attendance Affect Schooling and Earnings?', Angrist and … of their estimates, they argue that compulsory school attendance laws alone account for the association between quarter … strong to be fully explained by compulsory school attendance laws in the samples studied by Angrist and Krueger. Moreover …

Using rich panel data from Pakistan, we compute test score based measures of quality (School Value-Addeds or SVAs) for …. The annualized difference in learning between the best and worst performing school in the same village is 0.4 sd …, such as school closures and vouchers …

Does a school district that expands school choice provide better outcomes for students than a neighborhood …-based assignment system? This paper studies the Zones of Choice (ZOC) program, a school choice initiative of the Los Angeles Unified … School District (LAUSD) that created small high school markets in some neighborhoods but left attendance-zone boundaries in …

This paper examines the impact of school accountability on adult crime and economic self-sufficiency. We employ a …'s accountability regime. Our findings indicate that a school's receipt of a lower accountability rating, at the bottom end of the …

. We show through a randomized controlled trial that school principals, i.e., school mangers, can act as leaders to improve …

We present the first quantitative analysis of the impact of ending de jure segregation of Mexican-American school … attainment for Hispanics and non-Hispanic whites in California. Our identification strategy relies on comparing individuals … across California counties that vary in their likelihood of segregating and across birth cohorts that vary in their exposure …

school reverberate throughout life, not just through higher earnings. Schooling also affects the degree one enjoys work and …-pecuniary returns to schooling are at least as large as pecuniary ones. Ironically, one explanation why some early school leavers miss …