universal random assignment of students to high schools in certain areas of South Korea to provide estimates of school effects … that may better reflect the effects of school practices. We find significant effects of schools on scores in high …-stakes college entrance exams: a 1 standard deviation increase in school quality leads to 0.06-0.08 standard deviations higher …

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 …

(tracking and heterogeneous/bimodal groups) on student learning outcomes during middle school. Both strategies yielded an …

more than one school. Yet, little is known about the impact of multiple school jobs on teachers' productivity. This paper … one school. We use longitudinal data of students and teachers from the municipality of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, over a … period of 7 years and exploit within teacher-school-grade variation in the number of school jobs over time. We found …

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 …

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 …

-run outcomes up to age 27. We exploit exogenous variation in skills due to school entry rules, combining 20 years of Chilean … administrative records with a regression discontinuity design. Our results show higher in-school performance and college entrance …

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 …