Extant research on school entry and compulsory schooling laws finds that these policies increase the high school … the evolution of postsecondary impacts of the interaction of school entry and compulsory schooling laws in Michigan. We … employ a regression-discontinuity (RD) design using longitudinal administrative data to examine effects on high school …

qualitative aspects of School Education System in India in recent years. It is observed that complete Literacy has not been … attending schools, making the schooling process attractive to the children, streamlining the middle and high school curriculum …

We study the origins of what has become one of the most radical and encompassing programmes of school reform seen in … academies are conversions from already existent state schools and so are school takeovers that enable more autonomy. Our … schools experiencing the largest increase in their school autonomy relative to their predecessor state. Analysis of mechanisms …

factors behind this decline are still largely unknown. In this paper, we examine whether the introduction of school …

Children growing up in disadvantaged neighborhoods tend to perform significantly worse in school compared to children … significant; the same applies to GPA and admission to upper secondary school. For test scores in Swedish language there is no …

In 1997 Turkey passed a law making middle school completion compulsory, increasing the mandatory education from 5 to 8 … years. At the time of this policy change, only 3-in-5 students were completing middle school in Turkey. In this paper, I … indicate that the fraction of children completing middle school increased more than 20 percentage points as a result of this …

This paper investigates the impact of instructional days on student performance. Because school year length is … endogenously determined, I estimate the causal impact of school year length through two quasi-experiments that exploit different … sources of variation in instructional days. The fi rst approach identifies school year length 's effect through weather …

quality of education? What lessons can we take from British Columbia’s experience with greater school choice? In 2002, British … Columbia implemented a new policy that makes it easier for parents to opt out of their neighbourhood school. Along with the … opportunity to estimate the extent to which increased public school choice affects student achievement, concentrates minority …

policy to improve educational outcomes of juveniles and young adults: the provision of private school vouchers in the context … of a school accountability system to increase educational production at low-performing public schools (Chapter 2 …