In an important and provocative paper, `Does Compulsory School Attendance Affect Schooling and Earnings?', Angrist and … of their estimates, they argue that compulsory school attendance laws alone account for the association between quarter … strong to be fully explained by compulsory school attendance laws in the samples studied by Angrist and Krueger. Moreover …

middle school faced the longest closures. A structural model of human capital accumulation predicts that the US school …

We study how managerial practices of school principals affect student performance and aspirations. We link … administrative data on secondary Italian students to the management scores of their school principals in 2011 and 2015 based on the … World Management Survey methodology. The frequent turnover of school principals over this period allows us to causally …

We use a new empirical strategy to test various measures of school effectiveness in England. Our approach exploits … for oversubscribed schools. We show that raw, unadjusted test score outcomes of schools are biased estimators of school … value added models which adjust school test scores for difference in the prior attainment of their intake produce unbiased …