achievement-based admissions requirements (i.e. binding track recommendations) in Germany's between-school tracking system. The …

the relationship between financial performance and the presence of founders and financially affiliated directors. School …This study uses a hand-collected dataset for charter school boards in Massachusetts between 2001 and 2009 to examine …-level financial performance suggests that founder presence on a board has a negative effect on both financial and academic performance …

lower secondary schools. Using three indicators of school attainment (number of years spent in lower secondary education …, we consider it the result of prior sorting mechanisms of individuals accross school districts, the evidence indicates …

Many urban school districts in the United States and OECD countries confront the necessity of closing schools due to … tasked with closing down a certain percentage of student capacity; parents respond to these school closings by sorting into … the remaining schools. We estimate parents' preferences for each school in their choice set using 4 years of student …

This paper estimates peer effects on student achievement using a panel data set from a middle school in China. Unique … policy makers who want to exploit positive peer effects face difficult tradeoffs in classroom and school assignment …