and state-dependent private schools in Catalonia (Spain) are more reluctant to interact with single parents than with … fictitious families (heterosexual couple, single mother, and single father) and send e-mails to schools in which the family … structure is made explicit. Our results indicate that schools are more prone to interact with single parents than with …

institutional changes in schooling systems. The introduction of standardized student tests and of incentives for schools and …. Identification is based on within-country variation between PISA 2000 and PISA 2009. The results indicate that comparing schools by …

-country changes in the average share of schools with autonomy over key elements of school operations. Our results show that autonomy …-country changes in the average share of schools with autonomy over key elements of school operations. Our results show that autonomy …

-country changes in the average share of schools with autonomy over key elements of school operations. Our results show that autonomy …

the recent past amongst advanced countries – the introduction of academy schools to English secondary education. Academies … are state schools that are allowed to run in an autonomous manner which is free from local authority control. Almost all … academies are conversions from already existent state schools and so are school takeovers that enable more autonomy. Our …

instrumental variable approach (based on local supply of schools). In a second step, we carefully examine the influence of …

Brazil to test whether test score disclosure affects student performance, the composition of students in schools, and school … scores in private schools. Since test score disclosure has no impact on student composition and school observable inputs in … both public and private schools, our results suggest that test score disclosure changes the behavior of teachers and school …