The 2010 primary school reform in the UK aimed at giving schools more autonomy and freedom from local council's control … academy or joining an academy chain. However, the majority of studies have focused solely on the impact of school conversion … impact of the two different models of school governance on students' achievement. We exploit an instrumental variable …

This paper analyzes the impact of longer school days on student achievement in Colombia. To identify the impact of … longer schools days, this study exploits plausibly exogenous within school variation in the length of the school day. Using … test score data from 5th and 9th graders in 2002, 2005, and 2009, along with school administrative data, this research uses …

with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. It can show, for … example, that an improvement in parental outside options will reduce parental and school effort, which are partially … compensated through school resources. In this way, by incorporating the behavioral responses of parents, teachers and policymakers …

This paper estimates the effects of school accountability on year-to-year teacher mobility in Chile. An accountability …-performance ranking was based on the school’s relative position on a set of variables and their corresponding thresholds, we use a … teachers can move to other schools, as we did not find any effect on the likelihood of teachers leaving the school system. The …

accountability system's ranking of schools based on performance measures, and of a unique school level expenditure data set, to make … causal estimates of the effect of being ranked as "low-performing" on school spending decisions. The results indicate that …

To contribute to the debate about the reorganization of the public-school supply, in this paper we analyze a reform … name, administration, educational project and school principal. Specifically, we estimate the differences in student … achievement and measures of teacher characteristics and technological infrastructure between school sites belonging to a multi …