matter knowledge of primary school teachers in Indonesia is low on average and that a 1.0, but also a 2.0 standard deviation …. Second, the paper presents the results of three types of value-added regressions, a (standard) level specification, a school … 0.50) student-level standard deviations by the time students complete the six-year primary school cycle …

rate of school personnel or student test scores for local (non-municipal) schools that are not controlled by the municipal …

We consider the effects of school quality on health using the introduction of the Rosenwald schools which expanded … Rosenwald school exposure and survival. But accounting for the negative impact of migration on survival induced by Rosenwald … school exposure, we find that that complete exposure to the Rosenwald schools during childhood increased life expectancy by …

Advocates of school choice policies claim that private school competition would make public schools more efficient. I … evaluate the effect of private school competition on public schools' test scores in Arizona. Private schooling is treated as … private schools. Also, I use measures of the population of private school students and schools as new instruments for private …

This paper re-evaluates the effect of US public school competition on children's educational achievement based on a … large longitudinal school profile composed from the Common Core of Data (CCD at NCES). To reconcile the endogenous shift of … local competition measures driven by demand side sorting of households among school districts, I examine the changes of …

In Kenya, it's almost common sense when one is asked about the best school around. The first thing that strikes in mind … is a cursory comparison of school mean scores in the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination which … avoid ‘myopism' of what actually constitutes good performance for a public secondary school principal. The beacons of …

Recent studies in Economics have found that the idiosyncratic effect of school leaders may be an important factor in … largely unexplored in this literature. Employing a unique administrative panel data set from the Victorian public school …