school choice laws introduced in U.S. public schools over the past two decades. Total weekly hours of full-time teachers have … risen steadily since 1983 by about an hour, and after-school instructional hours have increased 34 percent since 1987 … conjecture that the weak link between effort and compensation in most school reforms helps explain the lack of such an …

.g. the use of school vouchers that could lead to social segregation. This article critically analyzes this line of reasoning …

In this research project we investigate how the design of school assignment rules affects social segregation and its … implications for social inequality. The context of our study is the Hungarian school system, which is characterized by early … segregation through the school assignment process. Second, we analyze how segregation resulting through school assignments affects …

In this paper we evaluate the impact of a major school reform, that took place in the 1950s in Sweden, on educational … non-academic streams at the age of 12 (comprehensive school reform). Our data combines survey data with administrative …

Sweden has undertaken major national reforms of its school sector which, consequently, has been classified as one of … the most decentralized ones in the OECD. This paper investigates whether school resources became more unequally … school resources differently as decentralization took place. Using municipal data the paper studies how per pupil spending …