This paper studies a school district that was federally mandated to adopt a race-blind lottery system to fill seats in … lotteries by race to offset its predominantly black applicant pools. The change dramatically segregated subsequent magnet school …

-related indicators such as school participation rate, educational inequality, inputs and expenditure in cross-country regression models … statistically insignificant. Moreover, once school-specific differences are also accounted for, Vietnamese students do just as well …

We examine whether parental and school investments reinforce or compensate for student performance. Our analysis … exploits school-starting-age rules in 34 countries, capturing achievement variation that arises because younger children … school investments are substitutes. …

We study the effect of school closures and the transition from on-site to on-line teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic … in the Finnish upper secondary schools. To identify the effects we exploit variation in the length of school closure …-secondary education than the students who experienced shorter school closures. Moreover, we show that inequalities across Finnish students …

School systems around the world use achievement tests to assign students to schools, classes, and instructional … resources, including remediation. Using a regression discontinuity design, we study a Florida policy that places middle school …

I study the impact of school consolidation on enrolment and achievement, using its staggered roll-out in the Indian … proportion of children studying in a school with a principal by 0.1, and increased the number of teachers in a village by 0.7. I … also find that consolidation increased school enrolment in a village by 2 per cent- in particular, girls' enrolment …

We study the effect of school closures and the transition from on-site to on-line teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic … in the Finnish upper secondary schools. To identify the effects we exploit variation in the length of school closure …-secondary education than the students who experienced shorter school closures. Moreover, we show that inequalities across Finnish students …

. We show through a randomized controlled trial that school principals, i.e., school mangers, can act as leaders to improve …

We study the effect of school closures and the transition from on-site to on-line teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic … in the Finnish upper secondary schools. To identify the effects we exploit variation in the length of school closure …-secondary education than the students who experienced shorter school closures. Moreover, we show that inequalities across Finnish students …