We examine the educational production function and efficiency of public school districts in Illinois. Using … in school districts. Moreover, the level of test scores, commonly used as a measure of school effectiveness, (while … related) differs substantially from our efficiency scores, and standard parametric approaches drastically underestimate school …

We exploit variation stemming from school consolidations in Denmark from 2010- 2011 to analyze the impact on student … achievement as measured by test scores. For each student we observe enrollment and test scores one year prior to school … consolidation and up to four years after. We find that school consolidation has adverse effects on achievement in the short run and …

We exploit variation stemming from school consolidations in Denmark from 2010-2011 to analyze the impact on student … achievement as measured by test scores. For each student we observe enrollment and test scores one year prior to school … consolidation and up to four years after. We find that school consolidation has adverse effects on achievement in the short run and …

schools. A detailed analysis of Egyptian students' achievements reveals differential effects of school types, notably being …

This paper studies the educational efficiency as determined only by the variables directly controlled by the school …

The paper performs an efficiency analysis of the lower secondary school sector in Norway. The efficiency potential is …

, we use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to estimate efficiency scores, which are then regressed on school and student … the distribution of the school budget to school principals. …

This paper proposes an econometric framework to consistently estimate the average partial effects (APE) of school … inputs on academic achievement when students are randomly assigned to schools within each school district but endogenously … sort across school districts. We illustrate our method by estimating the APE of single-sex schooling and class size on …