The great majority of studies on the effect of school quality on academic outcomes do not take account of changes in … student choices concerning effort if school quality, e.g. class size, changes. We show that empirical estimates of the "total …" effect of changes in school quality could be quite different from the "partial" effect holding other inputs (including …

We conduct a randomized controlled trial of an Indian school library program. Overall, the program had no impact on …

standardized test scores. We do this by utilizing grade-level longitudinal data on Florida's school districts from the Florida … confounders of the causal relationship at the level of school districts, grades, and years. Our results indicate that the extent …

and private schooling on student scores in Australia. We control for observable and unobservable influences, at school and …

Charter schools have been one of the most important dimensions of recent school reform measures in the United States … spread of charter schools in the 1990s. Using data on private school enrollment from decennial censuses and biennial National … Center for Education Statistics private school surveys, and using a fixed-effects as well as instrumental-variables strategy …

School accountability systems that establish the adoption of incentives for teachers and school managers usually impact … positively students’ performance. However, in many circumstances, school accountability systems may face institutional … accountable for not improving school quality. The results show that, on average, one point increase in a 0-10 scale index from …

reduces the disparity in test scores. The intervention increases formal school enrollment by 42 percentage points among all … children and increases test scores by 0.51 standard deviations (1.2 standard deviations for children that enroll in school …

Parents gauge school quality in part by the level of student achievement and a school's racial mix. The importance of … school characteristics in the housing market can be seen in the jump in house prices at school district boundaries where peer … bottom of the state SAT score distribution to a school with scores near the median. Successful applicants near admissions …