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 …

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 …

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 …

specifically good match with their children. I investigate the effect of attending a preferred school on student achievement in … assignment which awards school offer based on admission priority, residential distance, and parental preference. I compare … school of choice increases student achievement compared to an institution with lower parental preference but same value …

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 …

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 …

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 …

school-based financial education programs for youth. The intervention improves students’ and teachers’ financial knowledge by …