more than one school. Yet, little is known about the impact of multiple school jobs on teachers' productivity. This paper … one school. We use longitudinal data of students and teachers from the municipality of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, over a … period of 7 years and exploit within teacher-school-grade variation in the number of school jobs over time. We found …

variation in school attendance, allowing us to remove self-selection bias. Despite large differences in teacher quality and peer … quality across these school types, we find little evidence of any relative benefit in attending an assisted school between the …

Is a school's impact on high-stakes test scores a good measure of its overall impact on students? Do parents value … school impacts on high-stakes tests, longer-run outcomes, or both? To answer the first question, we apply quasi … labor market participation. To answer the second question, we link estimated school impacts to parent's ranked lists of …

specifically good match with their children. I investigate the effect of attending a preferred school on student achievement in … assignment which awards school offer based on admission priority, residential distance, and parental preference. I compare … school of choice increases student achievement compared to an institution with lower parental preference but same value …

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 …