This paper examines whether additional time in elementary and secondary school affects economic well-being in adulthood …. This paper explores a large-scale reform that increased the Chilean school day by 30 percent between 1997 and 2010, with … access to longer school days varying by cohort and city. Both sources of variation are leveraged and it is found that full …

We use a new empirical strategy to test various measures of school effectiveness in England. Our approach exploits … for oversubscribed schools. We show that raw, unadjusted test score outcomes of schools are biased estimators of school … value added models which adjust school test scores for difference in the prior attainment of their intake produce unbiased …

School-based management programs aim to improve education outcomes by involving parents in allocation decisions about … external funds transferred to the school. This paper explores the effects of two school-based management programs on parental … contributions. A cash grant alone for poor schools results in an increase in resources available to the school in less than the cash …