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 …

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 …

This paper studies the effects of changes in local public education budgets on individual schooling attainment and … redistributed public education finance across Brazilian municipalities in the late 1990s, as a source of exogenous variation. Using … a cohort-exposure design, I find that, at the individual level, doubling the program-related public education budget led …

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 …