, and financial decentralization measures taken in Latin America. Isolated rural communities have been truly empowered to … delays in payment of teacher salaries, as well as transfer of funds for school snacks, educational and teaching materials. …

School autonomy is popular but also complex and sometimes contentious. Many education systems have increased schools …, increased autonomy has led to greater pressure on schools and local stakeholders. To be successful, school autonomy needs to be … built on a set of key ingredients: a strong national framework and a clear strategic vision, well-adapted school head and …

well as a measure of school autonomy (using six waves of PISA). These measures are related to educational outcomes …. School autonomy is also positively related with educational outcomes, strengthening the estimated effects of administrative …

The impact of school resources on the quality of education in developing countries may depend crucially on whether … resources are targeted efficiently. In this paper we use a randomized experiment to analyze the impact of a school grants … focused funds on human resources improvements rather than school materials, suggesting that teachers and principals may be a …

We examine the evolution of educational assistance in Indonesia, following two decades of government decentralization … in the implementation of government decentralization to compute difference-in-difference estimators. Indicative evidence … suggests decentralization has facilitated collusion between village authorities and marginalized private schools, with …