evidence on the effects of class size and school vouchers. Results from the Tennessee STAR experiment suggest smaller class …

High school reform is currently at the top of the education policy making agenda after years of stagnant achievement … promise of small schools to improve academic engagement, school culture, and, ultimately, student performance has drawn many …

Does relaxing strict school discipline improve student achievement, or lead to classroom disorder? We study a 2012 … are associated with improvements in school culture, as measured by the quality of student-teacher relationships and … perceptions of safety at school. We find no evidence of trade-offs between students, with students benefiting even if they were …

Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of how school curricula affect students in …-stakes occupational choices. Chapter 4 exemplifies that school curricula reforms can also have unintended consequences by showing that a … 5 highlights the fundamental role teachers, the transmitters of educational content in school, play in the formation of …