School accountability schemes require measures of school performance, and these measures are in practice often based on … sufficient information. A school accountability scheme that rewards school performance will create incentives for pupil selection …

This paper analyzes how changes in school expenditures affect dropout rates and standardized test scores based on data … from 465 school districts in New York during the 2003/04 to the 2008/09 school years. Past traditional regression … approaches show inconsistent results of school expenditures because of an endogeneity problem. The regression discontinuity …

the nature of school facility investments, whether such investments actually change the physical condition of public … campaigns initiated and financed by local school districts, comparing districts where school capital bonds were either narrowly … approved or narrowly defeated by district voters. Overall, we find little evidence that school capital campaigns improve …