We examine the evolution of educational assistance in Indonesia, following two decades of government decentralization …, and its effect on education quality. Using Indonesia Family Life Survey data, we exploit as exogenous rule the variation … in the implementation of government decentralization to compute difference-in-difference estimators. Indicative evidence …

all due to differences in what students bring with them to school - socio-economic background, cultural factors, and the … like? Or do school systems make a difference? This essay argues that differences in features of countries' school systems … factors of the school system, as well as factors beyond the school system, account for cross-country achievement differences …

all due to differences in what students bring with them to school – socio-economic background, cultural factors, and the … like? Or do school systems make a difference? This essay argues that differences in features of countries' school systems … factors of the school system, as well as factors beyond the school system, account for cross-country achievement differences …

We study the origins of what has become one of the most radical and encompassing programmes of school reform seen in … academies are conversions from already existent state schools and so are school takeovers that enable more autonomy. Our … schools experiencing the largest increase in their school autonomy relative to their predecessor state. Analysis of mechanisms …

. However, the political manipulation of the school curricula can give rise to indoctrination effects with counterproductive … and labour market outcomes in Poland. We document that the reduction of Marxist-Leninist indoctrination in school … curriculum after 1954 exerted long-lasting beneficial effects. Unlike in East Germany, the school reform after the fall of …

. However, the political manipulation of the school curricula can give rise to indoctrination effects with counterproductive … and labour market outcomes in Poland. We document that the reduction of Marxist-Leninist indoctrination in school … curriculum after 1954 exerted long-lasting beneficial effects. Unlike in East Germany, the school reform after the fall of …

receiving PATH benefits alters the academic returns to subsequently attending a more preferred public secondary school. To … PATH benefits before secondary school enrollment does not influence the academic gains from attending a more selective … school. However, boys exposed to PATH experience significantly lower returns to subsequently attending a more selective …

This paper studies the effects of school organisation on short- and long-run pupil outcomes, exploiting a policy change … that reorganised Swedish middle school education. The reorganisation induced pupils to remain in small local schools … qualifications. Despite that the previous literature has found that school transitions and school size are important inputs in the …