Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went … conducive to student achievement in well-developed systems but detrimental in low-performing systems. We construct a panel … countries. Relying on panel estimation with country fixed effects, we estimate the effect of school autonomy from within …

in the level and equity of student achievement. Variations in skills measured by the international tests are in turn …

to the COVID-19 pandemic. While the COVID-19 pandemic has lowered student’s reservation wages after graduation, such an …

student achievement. Post-World War II trends in study effort and course rigor, for example, are positively correlated with …. This chapter reviews an emerging economic literature on the effects of and determinants of student effort and … cooperativeness and how putting student motivation and behavior at center of one's theoretical framework changes one's view of how …