Is it possible to compress instruction time into fewer school years without lowering education levels? A fundamental … remaining school years to provide students with a very similar core curriculum and the same overall instruction time. Using …

In this paper, I estimate the differential effects of compulsory schooling laws on school quality between black and … white schools in the United States segregated South. I employ state-level data on length of school terms and pupil … length in black schools relative to white schools. On the whole, however, the differential effects on school quality are …

This paper examines the effects of a compositional shift in a school’s testing population brought about by the …

How students’ non-school inputs respond to ability grouping may explain the currently mixed findings in the literature …

incentives by working fewer hours per week. Performance pay also decreases participation in unpaid cooperative school activities …

TFA teacher on test scores across the entire achievement distribution of primary school students in disadvantaged …

characteristics generated at the transition from primary to secondary school in a sample of Berlin fifth-graders. As will be discussed …

Australian school student achievement in reading and mathematical literacy has fallen in the Programme for … entire distribution of schools, however, the falls in school performance were more apparent in private schools than in the … government-run school systems in Australia. The declines were not associated with many other characteristics of schools …

This study exploits a unique policy environment and a large panel dataset to evaluate the impact of school crowding on … model to identify effects that are not confounded by other school, family, and individual characteristics. Results suggest …