This paper estimates the effects of school accountability on year-to-year teacher mobility in Chile. An accountability …-performance ranking was based on the school’s relative position on a set of variables and their corresponding thresholds, we use a … teachers can move to other schools, as we did not find any effect on the likelihood of teachers leaving the school system. The …

school-based financial education programs for youth. The intervention improves students’ and teachers’ financial knowledge by …

This paper analyzes the impact of longer school days on student achievement in Colombia. To identify the impact of … longer schools days, this study exploits plausibly exogenous within school variation in the length of the school day. Using … test score data from 5th and 9th graders in 2002, 2005, and 2009, along with school administrative data, this research uses …

(tracking and heterogeneous/bimodal groups) on student learning outcomes during middle school. Both strategies yielded an …

The 2010 primary school reform in the UK aimed at giving schools more autonomy and freedom from local council's control … academy or joining an academy chain. However, the majority of studies have focused solely on the impact of school conversion … impact of the two different models of school governance on students' achievement. We exploit an instrumental variable …

rule that is as-good-as-random. We collected data on children at the beginning of the school year, and applied 12 tests of …

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 …