organize teaching. Almost 70 percent of schools in the Netherlands are administered by private school boards, and all schools … are government funded equally. This allows school choice. Using an instrument to identify school choice, it is shown that … the Dutch system promotes academic performance. The instrumental variables results show that private school attendance is …

Using data from Indonesia, Newhouse and Beegle to evaluate the impact of school type on academic achievement of junior … secondary school students (grades 7-9). Students that graduate from public junior secondary schools, controlling for a variety …

The extent to which teachers and school directors are held to account may play a central role in determining education … paper investigates the relationship between an expanded set of school inputs, including proxies for the functionality of … characteristics, school resources and top-down accountability indicators are considered. An in-depth analysis of participatory …

This paper examines the effects of subsidized school meals on school participation, educational achievement, and school … preschools in a pool of 50. Children's school participation was 30 percent higher in the treatment group than in the comparison … experienced prior to the program. The school meals displaced teaching time and led to larger class sizes. Despite improved …

This paper develops and estimates an equilibrium model of charter school entry and school choice. In the model … additional school options, and they benefit non-white, low-income, and middle-school students the most. Further, policies that …

and nature of private school participation at the primary and secondary levels in Pakistan. Today, one-fifth of children … -- or one-third of all students -- go to private school in Pakistan. Private school students tend to come from urban …, wealthier, and more educated households than do government school students and especially out-of-school children. Important …

In 1999 the city of Bogota, Colombia launched the concession school program designed to broaden the coverage and …

' perceptions of school management. When teacher data are matched with school-level data on student achievement using a national … assessment data set (SIMCE), some teacher and school characteristics affect student performance, but a great deal of unexplained … authority, whether the school schedule is strictly enforced, and the extent to which teachers have autonomy in designing …