Proposals to use teachers' performance incentives as the basis for school reforms have recently attracted considerable … and school staff as merit pay and the rest, for the well-being of teachers in the school. I evaluate the effect of the …

schooling quality. This paper evaluates the effect on student achievement of an important school input, schooling hours, and … instruction hours and class size suggest that it is more cost effective, at the margin, to augment school time than to reduce …

students' performance on high-school matriculation exams. Since the schools in the program were not selected at random, the …

instilment of knowledge and comprehension (‘traditional’ teaching), and techniques that endow pupils with analytical and critical …

on primary- and middle-school data from Israel, I find very strong evidence that two important elements of teaching …, particularly among girls and pupils of low socioeconomic background. Second, the use of classroom techniques that endow pupils with … comparison with that of other potential interventions such as reducing class size or increasing school hours of instruction …