compensated through school resources. In this way, by incorporating the behavioral responses of parents, teachers and policymakers … 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 …

, improving the efficiency of school seats allocation. I show that parents of low-ability males select schools with lower peer …Expanding parental choice in education may increase system-wide productivity if parents select schools that form a … specifically good match with their children. I investigate the effect of attending a preferred school on student achievement in …

-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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

margin) as well as participation in education and labour activities (the extensive margin). We find robust evidence that …

less education for their children, even when offered financial compensation for school attendance. Each school year, half … of recipients forgo income for which they are eligible by failing to send children to school. Using a random effects … dependents and high school students, recipients with limited education, and those living in large urban areas are less likely to …

tertiary education can be explained by the fact that the gap in participation rates between women with lowly educated parents … attainment of parents. We then decompose the overall trend into a parental background effect, a general expansion effect and a … distribution effect. For women in particular, we find that a substantial fraction of the overall increase in participation in …