We use a new empirical strategy to test various measures of school effectiveness in England. Our approach exploits … for oversubscribed schools. We show that raw, unadjusted test score outcomes of schools are biased estimators of school … value added models which adjust school test scores for difference in the prior attainment of their intake produce unbiased …

variable bias and measurement error. In principle, our fixed effect estimates confirm that overeducated workers suffer a wage …

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 …

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 …

-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 …

substantial progress in education. However, average workers¿ earnings have stagnated and earnings for workers with more schooling … have declined, compressing the earnings distribution and lowering the returns to education. This paper hypothesizes that … for educated workers. The paper decomposes worker earnings into observable and unobservable firm and individual worker …

The apprenticeship system is the most important source of formal post-secondary training in Germany. Using German …