Primary education in India is a development question of a unique magnitude, and the delivery of education by Indian … states is often suspected to be marred by political haggling and corruption. Using rich administrative school-level panel … data across Indian states, we test for electoral cycles in the provision of school resources. The effects are identified …

administrative to instructional spending and larger class sizes were observed, supporting the hypothesis of a Leviathan-like school … administration. For Switzerland, using a cross-sectional time-series panel of sub-federal school expenditure and size of classes, no …

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 … assumption. We propose different compromise solutions and discuss the resulting incentives in theory. The empirical relevance of …

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 …