Quantitative school performance measures (QPMs) are playing an ever larger role in education systems on both sides of … are far from insurmountable. -- school quality ; performance measures ; education incentives …

clubs/teams/activities, skipping school, getting into fights, damaging property, stealing, hurting others, smoking, using … not in school as potential mediators. We find that: (1) Welfare reform had no favorable effects on any of the youth … skipping school, damaging property, and getting into fights among boys. (4) Welfare reform led to increases in smoking and drug …

as a natural experiment. We compare the probabilities of gaining selective school entry - which in our study period meant … attending a grammar school - before and after the Act using a difference-in-difference approach. Before 1944, grammar school … children were required to take a competitive 11+ exam and about one-third gained a grammar school place. Pre-1944 we find the …

School systems around the world use achievement tests to assign students to schools, classes, and instructional … resources, including remediation. Using a regression discontinuity design, we study a Florida policy that places middle school …