longer schools days, this study exploits plausibly exogenous within school variation in the length of the school day. Using … school fixed effects models to estimate variation in average test scores across cohorts for schools that switched from a half … among the poorest schools and those in rural areas. The results suggest that lengthening the school day may be an effective …

Many nations allow private entities to manage publicly funded schools and grant them greater flexibility than … traditional public schools. However, isolating the causal effect of attending these privately managed public schools relative to … attending traditional public schools is difficult because students who attend privately managed schools may differ in …

introduced in Colombia in 2001 that merged several independent small schools into a single educational institution, with the same …-site institution with single-site schools. Our results suggest that there are no differences in standardized test scores, but at the … same time, we found that school sites belonging to multi-site schools, especially those in larger networks (more than 6 …

Recent studies document that, in many cases, the schools that parents prefer over others do not improve student test … scores. This could be because (a) parents cannot discern schools causal impacts, and/or (b) parents value schools that … Barbados. Using discrete choice models, we document that most parents have strong preferences for the same schools. Using a …