organize teaching. Almost 70 percent of schools in the Netherlands are administered by private school boards, and all schools … are government funded equally. This allows school choice. Using an instrument to identify school choice, it is shown that … the Dutch system promotes academic performance. The instrumental variables results show that private school attendance is …

The extent to which teachers and school directors are held to account may play a central role in determining education … paper investigates the relationship between an expanded set of school inputs, including proxies for the functionality of … characteristics, school resources and top-down accountability indicators are considered. An in-depth analysis of participatory …

of school size and class size on the performance of secondary schools on Ukraine's External Independent Test. They find …

"Vermeersch and Kremer examine the effects of subsidized school meals on school participation, educational achievement …, and school finance in a developing country setting. They use data from a program that was implemented in 25 randomly … chosen preschools in a pool of 50. Children's school participation was 30 percent higher in the treatment group than in the …