This paper analyzes the impact of longer school schedules on children's 2nd grade reading comprehension skills in Chile … choose full-day schools, and after controlling for selection, longer school schedules lead to an increase of 0.14 standard …) and urban schools, and among girls. We also find that the benefits of longer school days accumulate over time …

finds that among all teachers, there is no difference in the attrition rate between charter and traditional public school … school counterparts. Among new teachers who voluntarily leave or move, teaching at a charter increases the odds of leaving by … teaching high school, those with graduate degrees, and those with grater responsibilities outside of the classroom are more …

exclusion of poorly performing pupils. In England there were two phases of academy school introduction, the first in the 2000s … being a school improvement programme for poorly per-forming schools, the second a mass academisation programme from 2010 for …

Using nationally representative linked employer-employee data for Britain in 2004 and 2011 we find school staff are … accounted for by the occupations school employees undertake and perceptions of job quality. School employees are also more … committed to their organization than non-school employees, a difference that remains large and statistically significant having …

effects design, we explore how the massive scale-up of a Florida private school choice program affected public school students …Using a rich dataset that merges student-level school records with birth records, and leveraging a student fixed …’ outcomes. Program expansion modestly benefited students (through higher standardized test scores and lower absenteeism and …

This paper considers the influence of spatial competition on education and its effect on students' school choice and …). Overall learning time in school is constant in the probability that students behave well if students are segregated by type … educational achievement by explicitely modeling educational production and the students' participation decision. Education at …

New hand-collected school administrative data from 1870s Virginia, alongside linked individual US Censusrecords …, reveals that temporary school closures had lasting effects on literacy and income in adulthood. Those affected by the closures …

whether policymakers can improve education by utilizing non-instructional resources. We exploit plausibly exogenous within-school … overall achievement as increasing the quality of every teacher in the school by nearly one-third of a standard deviation, and …

presenting a novel identification strategy for separately estimating effects from entrance and relative age at school entry that …-random variation in entrance and relative ages, this paper then specifies and estimates education production functions for achievement …