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 …

disadvantaged schools: Chile, Colombia, and Peru. We use unique micro-data at the teacher and school level to describe the … of schooling and a moderate relationship with the geographic location of the school (rural). While our analyses are …

higher risk of later grade retention and dropout. Leveraging existing school inputs for a light-touch, cost-effective, and …

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 …

which school characteristics teachers value the most can help us design new policies and modify the existing ones to attract …

estimate the causal impact of winning the award on the school choice decisions of talented teachers. By exploiting the fact …

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 …