of primary education on school enrollment, drop-outs and completion rates. The empirical results show that for children … in elementary school one additional grade of primary education has a negative impact on enrollment rate, while the effect … underdeveloped countries parents do not have incentive to send children to school given the high perceived present economic value of …

of primary education on school enrollment, drop-outs and completion rates. The empirical results show that for children … in elementary school one additional grade of primary education has a negative impact on enrollment rate, while the effect … underdeveloped countries parents do not have incentive to send children to school given the high perceived present economic value of …

School systems aspire to provide equal opportunity for all, irrespective of socio-economic status (SES). Much of the … criticism of recent school reforms that introduce accountability, autonomy, and choice emphasizes their potentially negative … in school systems employing these institutional features. The rigorous micro-econometric analyses are based on the PISA …

Accountability, autonomy, and choice play a leading role in recent school reforms in many countries. This report … provides new evidence on whether students perform better in school systems that have such institutional measures in place. We … of a large set of student, family, school, and country characteristics. The student-level data used in the analysis comes …

or compensatory pattern of class sizes for a sample of national school systems. Sorting effects are identified by … decentralized education finance and considerable residential mobility, exhibits regressive between-school sorting. Between-school … sorting is more compensatory in systems with ability tracking. Within-school sorting is more compensatory when administrators …