To contribute to the debate about the reorganization of the public-school supply, in this paper we analyze a reform … name, administration, educational project and school principal. Specifically, we estimate the differences in student … achievement and measures of teacher characteristics and technological infrastructure between school sites belonging to a multi …

This paper analyzes the impact of longer school days on student achievement in Colombia. To identify the impact of … longer schools days, this study exploits plausibly exogenous within school variation in the length of the school day. Using … test score data from 5th and 9th graders in 2002, 2005, and 2009, along with school administrative data, this research uses …

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 …

Although many students suffer from anxiety and depression, and often identify school pressure and concerns about their … futures as the main reasons for their worries, little is known about the consequences of a selective school environment on … enroll in a more selective high school increases the probability of enrollment in higher education and decreases the …

regression-discontinuity design, we estimate the causal impact of attending a preferred school on a broad array of outcomes. As … consistent with parents valuing school impacts on outcomes not well-measured by test scores, while the pattern for males is …

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 …