, ignoring quality differences. This focus contrasts sharply with policy considerations that almost exclusively consider school … quality issues. This paper presents basic evidence about the impact of school quality on individual earnings and on economic … considers alternative school reform policies focused on improvements in teacher quality, identifying how much change is required …

estimates the effect of one Fe y Alegria school in Peru on mathematics and reading comprehension among second grade primary … pupils, between 2007 and 2012. The identification strategy is based on the fact that for this school Fe y Alegría conducted a … lottery to determine which students would be accepted onto first grade. We could prepare our estimates only for one school …

market outcomes and historical school census data, and we exploit changes in the availability and size of public and private … in a private high school on wages after college graduation, and we discuss alternative mechanisms that can explain this …