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Empirical analyses for the US suggest that stronger people's control over the school budget is deleterious to student performance. Using Swiss data on ninth graders in mathematics, reading and natural science collected jointly with the PISA study 2000, this paper tests this hypothesis for...
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This paper examines the job mobility of teachers with different skills using matched employer-employee data from Swedish secondary schools. In addition to standard quality measures, I have access to population-wide data on cognitive and non-cognitive assessments of males born in 1951 or later....
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We study whether reallocating existing teachers across schools within a district can increase student achievement, and what policies would help achieve these gains. Using a model of multi-dimensional value-added, we find meaningful achievement gains from reallocating teachers within a district....
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We study the determinants of math achievement among children in early elementary school using data from a unique … experiment in which children were randomly assigned to classrooms within schools for four consecutive grades. As a result, each … there are steep socioeconomic gradients and a substantial boy-girl gap in math test scores. However, among children of …
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