Die aus dem Zusammentreffen von stagnierenden Bildungsbudgets und tendenziell weiter steigenden Anforderungen an die Bildungssysteme entstandene Verschärfung der finanziellen Engpasssituation hat die Frage nach dem optimalen Einsatz der zur Verfügung stehenden Mittel immer dringender werden...

Policy makers periodically consider using student assignment policies to improve educational outcomes by altering the socio-economic and academic skill composition of schools. We exploit the quasi-random reassignment of students across schools in the Wake County Public School System to estimate...

This paper studies a model where student effort and talent interact with parental and teachers' investments, as well as with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. It can show, for example, that an improvement in parental outside...