School funding per pupil increased substantially between 1999-00 and 2012-13 in England. It also became more varied …

The impact of school resources on the quality of education in developing countries may depend crucially on whether … resources are targeted efficiently. In this paper we use a randomized experiment to analyze the impact of a school grants … focused funds on human resources improvements rather than school materials, suggesting that teachers and principals may be a …

School districts have more influence on home buyers’ choices than any other local-government unit, yet hardly anyone … knows why they exist. “Making the Grade” explains the development of American school districts and advances an economic … argument for their continued existence. In the nineteenth century, almost all districts governed a single, one-room school …

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 …