system affect equality of educational opportunity. Our model predicts that late tracking and a long pre-school cycle are … beneficial for equality, while pre-school enrollment is detrimental at low levels of enrollment and beneficial at higher levels …

standard and international trade. The estimation results allow us to formulate some interesting policy conclusions. …

hypothesis is scrutinized: not an increase of schooling resources in the existing school system, but a performance … ‘school autonomy’, ‘external exams’ and ‘school competition’, which international research has identified as the supporting … pillars of an efficient school system. On this basis, attention is turned to the German school system. Starting with an …

records from the 1994-95 school year untilthe 2003-04 school year. The first essay explores promotion rates of men and womento … school principal, a position that requires certification. I find ignoring gender differences in desire for promotion yields … opportunities. Usingthe public school principal profession in Texas and measuring teacher quality by changes in student achievement …

promoting schoold in the rural areas – particularly the Secondary School in Oniceni, Suceava County. In our approach, we will … focus on a series of considerations that belong to the social and family context, when chosing school. …