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 examines the efficacy of class-size reductions as a strategy to improve pupils' learning outcomes in India … range of class sizes from 27 to 51, with a negative effect on learning outcomes occurring only after class size increases … beyond 51 pupils. The class-size effect varies by gender and by subject-stream. The fact that up to a class-size of roughly …

groups of pupils to multi-grade classes. We find that school-starters benefit from exposure to second-graders in measures of …

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 …

learning inequalities widened when school closed. These patterns are particularly pronounced for younger students who face more …, students have moved between in-person and remote learning up until the spring of 2021. This chapter surveys the literature on … the implications of school closures of primary to upper-secondary schools for virus transmission, student learning, and …

In 2013, Tanzania introduced "Big Results Now in Education", a low-stakes accountability program that published both … nationwide and within-district school rankings. Using data from the universe of school performance from 2011-2016, we identify … schools at the top and bottom of their respective district rankings. We find that BRN improved learning outcomes for schools …

This paper examines the effect of a high school student's relative position in the class achievement distribution on … school violence. We identify this effect by exploiting idiosyncratic differences in the distribution of earlier academic … achievement across classes. Such differences generate quasi-random variation in rank for students with the same initial …

The level of educational attainment in Mozambique is one of the lowest in the world and primary school completion rate …) the determinants of school dropout; (2) the variables that are associated with school dropout in the year of the survey … dropout, using a propensity score matching analysis. We find that age, child labour, household head's gender and education …

School districts historically approached conflict-resolution from the perspective that suspending disruptive students … behavior without harming students. We study Chicago Public Schools' adoption of RP and find that suspensions and arrests … decreased, driven by effects for Black students. We find null effects on test-score value added, ruling out meaningful average …

The school building is a built environment in the physical learning environment. How it is perceived by students … on student outcomes. The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) public education system experienced system wide governance …. All these structural breaks had influenced the ACT public school buildings as governance changes resulted in construction …