The great majority of studies on the effect of school quality on academic outcomes do not take account of changes in … student choices concerning effort if school quality, e.g. class size, changes. We show that empirical estimates of the "total …" effect of changes in school quality could be quite different from the "partial" effect holding other inputs (including …

are able to match organizational practices at the school level with students' outcomes in a math standardized test. We …

This paper argues that school grades cannot be interpreted solely as a reward for a given school performance, since … elementary education. The data for three entire school cohorts is analyzed - approximately 140,000 individuals. …

This paper studies the effects of school organisation on short- and long-run pupil outcomes, exploiting a policy change … that reorganised Swedish middle school education. The reorganisation induced pupils to remain in small local schools … qualifications. Despite that the previous literature has found that school transitions and school size are important inputs in the …