economic impacts. But, the evidence – whether from aggregate school outcomes, econometric investigations, or a variety of …

that, after an initial start-up period, average school quality in the charter sector is not significantly different from … that in regular public schools. Perhaps most important, the parental decision to exit a charter school is much more … sensitive to education quality than the decision to exit a regular public school, consistent with the notion that the …

Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary-school … between primary and secondary school across tracked and non-tracked systems. Six international student assessments provide …

, ignoring quality differences. This focus contrasts sharply with policy considerations that almost exclusively consider school … quality issues. This paper presents basic evidence about the impact of school quality on individual earnings and on economic … considers alternative school reform policies focused on improvements in teacher quality, identifying how much change is required …

Studies of the charter school sector typically focus on head-to-head comparisons of charter and traditional schools at … a point in time, but the expansion of parental choice and relaxation of constraints on school operations is unlikely to … raise school quality overnight. Rather, the success of the reform depends in large part on whether parental choices induce …

Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went … countries. Relying on panel estimation with country fixed effects, we identify the effect of school autonomy from within …-country changes in the average share of schools with autonomy over key elements of school operations. Our results show that autonomy …

schooling and, more importantly, the skills that they learn while in school. This paper examines studies published between 1990 … and 2010, in both the education literature and the economics literature, to investigate which specific school and teacher … characteristics, if any, appear to have strong positive impacts on learning and time in school. Starting with over 9,000 studies, 79 …