Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has declared school voucher programs constitutional, the many unanswered questions … concerning the potential effects of school choice will become especially pressing. Contributors to this volume draw on state …-of-the-art economic methods to answer some of these questions, investigating the ways in which school choice affects a wide range of …

We exploit variation stemming from school consolidations in Denmark from 2010- 2011 to analyze the impact on student … achievement as measured by test scores. For each student we observe enrollment and test scores one year prior to school … consolidation and up to four years after. We find that school consolidation has adverse effects on achievement in the short run and …

We exploit variation stemming from school consolidations in Denmark from 2010-2011 to analyze the impact on student … achievement as measured by test scores. For each student we observe enrollment and test scores one year prior to school … consolidation and up to four years after. We find that school consolidation has adverse effects on achievement in the short run and …

This paper studies a large-scale educational expansion to evaluate whether shocks to school inputs have an impact on … doubled enrollment in adult education, thus putting considerable strain on school inputs. Since the policy targeted … stronger negative shocks to peer quality and school resources such as teacher credentials and perpupil expenditure. Then, I …

Austria is one of 10 countries involved in the OECD CERI (Centre for Educational Research and Innovation) Environment … and School Initiatives (ENSI) project. Begun in 1986, ENSI is one of the first international projects to promote … development and research in ambitious, environment-oriented instruction. In Austria, there is an ‘Ecologisation of Schools …

of providing schools with (a) unconditional school grants, (b) bonus payments to teachers based on student performance …, and (c) both of the above. At the end of two years, we find (a) no impact on student test scores from providing school …