of performance incentives for teachers, deficient curriculum, weak school autonomy and accountability. This has driven … administration of pre–school and childcare has led to inefficiencies. Education quality in primary and secondary levels reflects lack … outcomes could be improved by giving more autonomy to schools and universities, and increasing accountability by, for example …

stratification in the school system; and making tertiary education more attractive and responsive to labour-market requirements. With …

"This paper investigates the short-term effects of a reduction in the length of high school on students' personality … traits using a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment. Starting in 2001 …, academic-track high school (Gymnasium) was reduced from nine to eight years in most of Germany's federal states, leaving the …

Using the 3-year sample of the American Community Survey (ACS) for 2009 to 2011, we compute public school teacher …

This paper analyzes the combined effect of school entry-age increase and the introduction of preparatory year (pre-school … for several subjects across different grades. Results are robust to falsification tests. However, cohorts starting school …

institutions in the formation of students’ cognitive and non-cognitive skills. Besides that, the role of school peers in the …

We analyze two experiments that provided direct information on school test scores to lower-income families in a public … school choice plan. We find that receiving information significantly increases the fraction of parents choosing higher … scores. Using random variation from each experiment, we find evidence that attending a higher-scoring school increases …