School-based management programs aim to improve education outcomes by involving parents in allocation decisions about … external funds transferred to the school. This paper explores the effects of two school-based management programs on parental … contributions. A cash grant alone for poor schools results in an increase in resources available to the school in less than the cash …

Internet access in secondary public schools in Peru. Rich longitudinal school-level data from 2001 to 2006 are used to …

variation in school attendance, allowing us to remove self-selection bias. Despite large differences in teacher quality and peer … quality across these school types, we find little evidence of any relative benefit in attending an assisted school between the …

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 analyzes how slum upgrading programs impact elementary school childrens attendance in Uruguay. We take … percentile of the yearly count of school absences. That effect appears to be driven by how SUPs impact girls. These interventions …

specifically good match with their children. I investigate the effect of attending a preferred school on student achievement in … assignment which awards school offer based on admission priority, residential distance, and parental preference. I compare … school of choice increases student achievement compared to an institution with lower parental preference but same value …