the nature of school facility investments, whether such investments actually change the physical condition of public … campaigns initiated and financed by local school districts, comparing districts where school capital bonds were either narrowly … approved or narrowly defeated by district voters. Overall, we find little evidence that school capital campaigns improve …

high school and levels of social capital. The disparities might serve to further widen the gap between the relatively … privileged students who are staying in school and the less privileged students who are dropping out of school. This result … suggests that making high school accessible to more students would improve social capital in the general population. …

We study the effect of the world's largest school feeding program on children's learning outcomes. Staggered … implementation across different states of a 2001 Indian Supreme Court Directive mandating the introduction of free school lunches in … this to estimate the effect of program exposure on math and reading test scores of primary school-aged children. We find …

knowledge. We show that achievements of low ability students may be higher in a comprehensive school system, even if there are … no synergy effects from teaching different students together. This arises because the comprehensive school sets a …

This paper studies the educational efficiency as determined only by the variables directly controlled by the school …

. This paper examines a school accountability program that provides financial support to low-performing schools but has no …'s results suggest that to improve student achievement, a school accountability program does not need to set high …-stakes consequences that potentially induce unwanted strategic behaviors on the part of school workers. …