increases the propensity of children to read, causing 20 percent more children to have read a book in the last week at school … after the end of the program and outside of school, although at lower rates. The program also increased students' scores on …

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 …

We conduct a randomized controlled trial of an Indian school library program. Overall, the program had no impact on …

productivity parameter, class size is a component of school quality, households are heterogeneous in income and hence willingness … to pay for school quality, and schools are subject to a class-size cap. The model offers an explanation for two distinct … approach in settings in which parents have substantial school choice and schools are free to set prices and influence their …

groups of pupils to multi-grade classes. We find that school-starters benefit from exposure to second-graders in measures of …

effect of education on participation in criminal activity using changes in compulsory school leaving age laws over time to …

minimum school-leaving age law in the United Kingdom from age 14 to 15 in 1947, and from age 15 to 16 in 1973, as sources of …