School quality is hard to define and measure. It is influenced by not only school expenditures, but also … identifying the effect of specific neighbourhood and school characteristics on educational attainment, we focus on correlations in … final years of schooling among neighbouring children and school mates. We find a clear trend of declining influence of …

determined whether they would attend an academically oriented grammar school or a lower level secondary school. The reform … proceeded at an uneven pace in different areas, so that both secondary school systems coexist during the 1960s and 70s. The … selective school system on student achievement. Previous studies analyzing this transition have typically used a value …

raising the difficulty of the test causes students to finish high school rather than drop out and GED certify. We find that a …

A large school consolidation reform in the Netherlands changed minimum school size rules underlying public funding. The … of schools implies, for a given number of pupils, an increase in average school size. We present evidence that in our …

instruments must be specified at each level of education, and we suggest that different school reforms in Norway can serve as … suitable instruments. In particular, we exploit the staged implementation of a major reform in the comprehensive school system … upper secondary school and shorter programs at regional colleges, together with master?s programs at universities, have high …

school choice laws introduced in U.S. public schools over the past two decades. Total weekly hours of full-time teachers have … risen steadily since 1983 by about an hour, and after-school instructional hours have increased 34 percent since 1987 … conjecture that the weak link between effort and compensation in most school reforms helps explain the lack of such an …

Using data from 12 European countries and the variation across countries and over time in the changes of minimum school … leaving age, we study the effects of the quantity of education on the distribution of earnings. We find that compulsory school …

British selective grammar school system, it would seem that the role of selection (ability tracking) in the school system … merits further investigation. This paper explores the inter-relationship between school selection, ability and educational … achievement. Our regression and matching results indicate that the most able pupils in the selective school system did do better …