Using unique survey data on rural secondary school children, this paper evaluates the relative quality of Islamic … secondary schools (i.e. madrasahs) in Bangladesh. Students attending registered madrasahs fare worse in maths and English than … students attending non-madrasah schools. However, failure to account for non-random sorting over-estimates the negative …

education than public schooling. We apply multilevel regression on the 2009 PISA to estimate the differential effect of public … and private schooling on student scores in Australia. We control for observable and unobservable influences, at school and …

states, we identify the reform effect on students ́probability to graduate from high school. The results show that high …This paper evaluates the effects of a high school curriculum reform that was introduced in one German state on high … school dropout. The reform increased the standards of the curriculum by reducing the freedom of choice in course selection …

states, we identify the reform effect on students' probability to graduate from high school. The results show that high …This paper evaluates the effects of a high school curriculum reform that was introduced in one German state on high … school dropout. The reform increased the standards of the curriculum by reducing the freedom of choice in course selection …

overall null effects. Effects are larger for high-SES students and mostly confined to developed countries. …

overall null effects. Effects are larger for high-SES students and mostly confined to developed countries. …

one student has been in a given school. I examine whether and how school tenure impacts students' output using rich cohort … (TSLS) estimates suggest the effects of school tenure are positive and heterogeneous across students. While advantaged … students are more likely to gain from own longer school tenure, disadvantaged ones benefit if their peers have longer tenure …

We study the origins of what has become one of the most radical and encompassing programmes of school reform seen in … the recent past amongst advanced countries – the introduction of academy schools to English secondary education. Academies … academies are conversions from already existent state schools and so are school takeovers that enable more autonomy. Our …

Concepts of new school governance did considerably change the role and responsibilities of school principals. Due to … propose to expand the school context to embrace the school-related environment, and we examine this broader context with … identify objective challenges to leadership improves the measurement of contextual conditions at school. …

We study the effect of standardized external tests on students’ academic outcomes. We exploit the fact that only one of … improves student outcomes. A key novelty is that our exams do not have academic consequences for the students, so effects have …