To study the effects of ability grouping on school competition, we develop a theoretical and computational model of …

To study the effects of ability grouping on school competition, we develop a theoretical and computational model of …

This paper studies the effect of longer school days - induced by voluntary all-day programs in German primary schools … - on school performance. We combine data from the National Educational Panel Study covering 5771 primary school students … with municipality-level information on all-day school investments. Facing the challenge of selection into all-day school …

This paper analyzes the impact of longer school schedules on children's 2nd grade reading comprehension skills in Chile … choose full-day schools, and after controlling for selection, longer school schedules lead to an increase of 0.14 standard …) and urban schools, and among girls. We also find that the benefits of longer school days accumulate over time. …

This paper studies a large-scale educational expansion to evaluate whether shocks to school inputs have an impact on … doubled enrollment in adult education, thus putting considerable strain on school inputs. Since the policy targeted … stronger negative shocks to peer quality and school resources such as teacher credentials and perpupil expenditure. Then, I …

school competition are both independently related to student outcomes. …Using a rich dataset that merges student-level school records with birth records, and leveraging a student fixed … effects design, we explore how the massive scale-up of a Florida private school choice program affected public school students …