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are able to match organizational practices at the school level with students' outcomes in a math standardized test. We …
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We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the...
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The Australian Government launched the My School website in 2010 to provide standardised information about the quality … Victoria to estimate the effect of the publication of school quality information on property prices. We use a difference … findings indicate that many buyers are unaware of the relevance of school quality information and that real estate agents …
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education in many countries across the world. In this paper, in line with some recent studies, we value school quality using …' choice to attend high schools to identify the relationship between house prices and school performance. We exploit a change … in school choice policy that took place in Oslo county in 1997, where the school authorities opened up the possibility …
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features a long school day, an extended school year, selective teacher hiring, strict behavior norms, and a focus on … impact of KIPP Academy Lynn, a KIPP school in Lynn, Massachusetts that typifies the KIPP approach. Our analysis focuses on …
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Previous research shows that, in tracked school systems, enrollment decisions are strongly associated with future … collected within the Arianna Project, an independent school track counseling service run by the municipality of a large city in … school. We show that students' enrollment intentions are very often inconsistent with their actual potential as revealed by …
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Free school choice has often been argued to be a tide that lifts school quality through increased competition. This … paper analyzes the underlying assumption that school quality is an important choice criterion for parents. Using a large and … representative data set of over 15,000 Dutch primary school starters we estimate models of school demand that incorporate …
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Using unique survey data on rural secondary school children, this paper evaluates the relative quality of Islamic …
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In this paper, we study the impact of disclosing information about school quality of private schools in Brazil on … school choice. Particularly, we investigate whether test score disclosure affected private schools' tuition prices. In 2006 …, Brazil started to announce the schools' average test score of ENEM, a high school exit exam run by the federal government …
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and private schooling on student scores in Australia. We control for observable and unobservable influences, at school and …
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