student needs and learning approaches to keep children in school. A related problem is the apparently large divergence between …

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

spending. More focused pre-school spending on disadvantaged children could improve skill formation. Better-targeted funding for … across different school types. To better gauge progress and inform policy makers, schools and parents on educational outcomes …

features of the educational environment. These distinctive features include peer effects, scope for private school pricing and … admissions based on student characteristics, the linkage of household residential and school choices in multidistrict settings …, the potential for rent seeking in public and private schools, the role of school reputations, incentives for student …

; and by creating incentives for school managers to increase effort in order to attract or retain students when faced with …

Disabled children are known to fare worse in terms of educational attainment during their school years, with subsequent … following questions: do disabled children in England have lower cognitive skills prior to school entry? How do educational … attainment and cognitive skills develop over the early school years relative to their non-disabled peer group? What role do …

women in local government in India, I find a one percentage-point increase in the school enrollment rate of young women for … changed the educational aspirations of young women and possibly enhanced the support of young women in school. To this end, I … each additional year of exposure to women leaders. This effect is sizeable given a mean level of exposure of 11 years and …

Free school choice has often been argued to be a tide that lifts school quality through increased competition. This … paper analyzes the underlying assumption that school quality is an important choice criterion for parents. Using a large and … representative data set of over 15,000 Dutch primary school starters we estimate models of school demand that incorporate …