assessments. However, the empirical literature recognizes that assessing the true effect of private school attendance requires … school effect mostly covers OECD and Latin American countries, with little evidence on other parts of the world. There is … recent emerging country specific evidence doubting the existence of a private school advantage. I use PISA 2012 data for …

Using rich panel data from Pakistan, we compute test score based measures of quality (School Value-Addeds or SVAs) for …. The annualized difference in learning between the best and worst performing school in the same village is 0.4 sd …, such as school closures and vouchers …

We discuss how a schooling system's structure may imply that private school enrolment leads to worse subsequent … performance in further education or in the labour market, and we seek evidence of such phenomena in Italian data. If students … Italian secondary school graduates, interviewed 3 year after graduation. In these data, the impact of observable talent …

We discuss how a schooling system's structure may imply that private school enrolment leads to worse subsequent … performance in further education or in the labour market, and we seek evidence of such phenomena in Italian data. If students … Italian secondary school graduates, interviewed 3 year after graduation. In these data, the impact of observable talent …

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 …