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Does government spending on education increase intergenerational education mobility? : the case of Free Compulsory Basic Education in Ghana

Branson, Nicola; Whitelaw, Emma - 2026

This paper examines whether Ghana's education reforms have increased intergenerational education mobility. Using the newly constructed Ghana Education and Labour Series-a harmonized dataset combining multiple rounds of the Ghana Living Standards Survey-we track intergenerational education...

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Drivers of primary healthcare and elementary education initiatives in Rajasthan (2014–2024)

Singh, Priyadarshini - 2026

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Gender norms and the quantity-quality tradeoff : evidence from free primary education in Africa

Collins, Matthew; Guarnieri, Eleonora; Rainer, Helmut - 2026 - Original version: July 2025, this version: January 2026

This paper investigates the causal impact of free primary education (FPE) on fertility decisions among parents in sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on the interplay between the policy, intra-household bargaining, and cultural norms. Using Demographic and Health Survey data and exploiting the...

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Gender norms and the quantity-quality tradeoff : evidence from free primary education in Africa

Collins, Matthew; Guarnieri, Eleonora; Rainer, Helmut - 2026

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Who benefits from remote schooling? : self-selection and match effects

Bruhn, Jesse; Campos, Christopher; Chyn, Eric; Tran, Anh - 2026

We study the distributional effects of remote learning using a novel approach combining preference data from a conjoint survey with administrative records. Experimentally derived preferences account for selection into remote learning and treatment effect heterogeneity. We validate the approach...

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Who benefits from remote schooling? : self-selection and match effects

Bruhn, Jesse; Campos, Christopher; Chyn, Eric - 2023

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Who Benefits from Remote Schooling? Self-Selection and Match Effects

Bruhn, Jesse M.; Campos, Christopher; Chyn, Eric - 2023

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Who Benefits from Remote Schooling? Self-Selection and Match Effects

Bruhn, Jesse; Campos, Christopher; Chyn, Eric T. - 2023

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Who chooses and who benefits? : the design of public school choice systems

Campos, Christopher; Bruhn, Jesse; Chyn, Eric; Vazquez, … - 2026

Public school choice has evolved rapidly in the past two decades, as districts roll out new magnet, dual-language, and themed programs to broaden educational opportunity. We use newly collected national data to document that opt-in (voluntary) systems: (i) are the modal design; (ii) are harder...

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Who chooses and who benefits? : the design of public school choice systems

Campos, Christopher; Bruhn, Jesse; Chyn, Eric; Vazquez, … - 2025

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Who Chooses and Who Benefits? The Design of Public School Choice Systems

Campos, Christopher; Bruhn, Jesse; Chyn, Eric; Vazquez, … - 2025

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Validating a theoretical model to measure performance management in South African private secondary schools

Nag, Debapriyo; Bisschoff, Christo Alfonzo; Botha, … - 2026

Performance management systems (PMSs) in private secondary education are vital, and although several tried and tested public sector performance measurement models exist, limited private secondary school performance measurement models exist in South Africa. This study aims to empirically validate...

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Teacher burnout and economic crisis effects in Greek primary education : a multidimensional analysis of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and personal achievement

Kokkonesi, Efthimia; Antonopoulou, Hera; Igoumenakis, … - 2026

Background: Professional burnout, characterized by three distinct psychological dimensions-emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and reduced personal achievement-threatens elementary teachers' well-being and educational quality. Limited research examines burnout patterns in elementary...

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The timing of school exclusions and its consequences for peers' outcomes

Dorsett, Richard; Oppedisano, Veruska; Thomson, Dave; … - 2026

This paper studies how the timing of excluding disruptive pupils affects peer outcomes. While removal can generate positive spillovers, delays may harm peers. We interpret exclusions as determining the timing of removal, and estimate the effect of earlier versus later exclusion. Using an...

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The demand for private schools and its impact on school segregation and student outcomes

Nielson Arendt, Jacob; Holm, Anders - 2026

This study examines the impact of private school attendance on segregation and student achievement in compulsory school in Denmark. We show that increased private school attendance is driven by students from high socio-economic groups. Leveraging variation across municipalities, grade and...

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The demand for private schools and its impact on school segregation and student outcomes

Nielson Arendt, Jacob; Holm, Anders - 2026

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Class peers as competitors and educators : the consequences of rank-based academic rewards

Rosenzweig, Mark R.; Xu, Bing - 2026

This paper examines the theoretical and empirical consequences of rank-based reward systems in schools in which students' performance and effort are evaluated relative to their peers. In such environments, classmates act simultaneously as competitors - due to rank-determined rewards - and as...

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Corporal punishment and learning outcomes : evidence from primary schools in Uganda

Mugume, Regean - 2026

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Unlocking legal efficiency gains in school switch programs

Andersson, Tommy; Lager, Nils; Kessel, Dany - 2026

We study school switches in which students who have already been assigned seats request reassignment. Unlike in regular school choice, stability need not be legally binding in such programs, since students' priority-based claims have already been satisfied upstream. Efficiency then naturally...

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Socio-economic inequality underpins inequity in influenza vaccination uptake between public and private secondary schools : an Australian population-based study

Le, Huong; Blyth, Christopher C.; Schlegel, Clement; … - 2026

Background: Socio-economic inequality and vaccination inequity have long been critical issues. However, no studies have explored the gap in influenza vaccination uptake between public and private schools. Importantly, the extent to which socio-economic inequality translates into vaccination...

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The impact of social mixing at school : evidence from a French desegregation program

Azmat, Ghazala; Grenet, Julien; Huillery, Elise; … - 2026

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The impact of social mixing at school : evidence from a French desegregation program

Azmat, Ghazala; Grenet, Julien; Huillery, Elise; … - 2026

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Does public school choice promote student diversity?

Attar, Itay; Cohen-Zada, Danny; Gershoni, Naomi - 2026

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Student performance following the conversion of single-sex schools to coeducation : evidence from Colombia

Bernal, Gloria L.; De Witte, Kristof - 2026

This study uses quasi-experimental evidence from Colombia to examine changes in students' academic performance following the transition from single-sex to coeducational schools. Analysing the conversion of single sex schools over 20 years with a staggered difference-in-differences approach, we...

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The effects of school bullying victimization on cognitive, school engagement, and friendship outcomes

Inoue, Atsushi; Tanaka, Ryūichi - 2026

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The effects of school bullying victimization on cognitive, school engagement, and friendship outcomes

Inoue, Atsushi; Tanaka, Ryūichi - 2025

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Re-examining the property price premium around "better" schools

Greaves, Ellen; Venturin, Alberto - 2026

The established consensus from a large worldwide literature is that access to a "better" school increases local property prices, which is typically interpreted as reflecting parents' demand for school quality. We show that this relationship does not hold universally. Using data on English...

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The Impact of School Grants on Disadvantaged Students : Experimental Evidence from Romania

de Hoyos, Rafael; Munteanu, Andrei; Pop-Eleches, Cristian - 2026

This study analyzes the impact of the Romania Secondary Education Project, which was designed to improve student retention, graduation rates and pass rates on a national end-of-high-school exam for low-achievement high schools in Romania. The program was implemented in three waves, September...

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Distributional association of preschool education and primary school learning outcomes in Togo

Koudjom, Etayibtalnam - 2026

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Friendship networks and academic success : the impact of class size and gender composition

Pohlmeier, Winfried; Shkoza, Livia; Uysal, Selver Derya - 2026

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Drivers of primary healthcare and elementary education nitiatives in Odisha (2014–2024)

Singh, Priyadarshini; Gupta, Anoushka - 2026

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Compulsory education, life trajectories, and intergenerational mobility : evidence from Mexico's 1993 schooling reform

Fuente Stevens, Diego de la - 2026

Mexico's 1993 reform extended compulsory schooling from six to nine years, creating a birth-cohort discontinuity in educational exposure. Using a regression discontinuity and instrumental variable design in the 2020 Mexican Census, this paper traces the reform's effects from educational...

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Conditional acceptance in school choice

Klijn, Flip - 2026

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The early bird gets the cash : early notification and conditional cash transfers for secondary school

Leight, Jessica; Gilligan, Daniel Orth; Mulford, Michael; … - 2026

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The impact of climate change on education outcomes : a systematic review

Bapna, Akanksha; Marcus, Rachel; Rodriguez, Diana … - 2026

Human-caused climate change is driving extreme weather events at increasing frequency and scale - including droughts, fires, and temperature and flooding. These events cause significant damage to life, infrastructure, health, nutrition, and education. With the world currently on track for 2.7°C...

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Schooling and labor market consequences of school construction in Indonesia : a comment on Duflo (American Economic Review, 2001)

Roodman, David - 2026

Duflo (2001) exploits a 1970s schooling expansion in Indonesia to estimate individual-levelschooling and labor impacts and the returns to schooling. I correct data errors, adjust for potentialsources of bias, follow up later in life, and check sensitivity to two specification choices that...

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Two decades of Massachusetts charter school effects

Kocks, Geoffrey - 2026

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Who absorbs a school day? : school schedules and household time allocation

Nozaki, Yuko - 2026 - This version: August 26, 2026

When a school day disappears, who absorbs it? This paper observes the complete same-day time accounts of children and both parents around Japan's transition to a five-day school week. Under the biweekly regime of 2001, the national time-use survey administratively assigned households to adjacent...

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Does class size matter for learning? : how and for whom? : evidence from public primary schools in Rwanda

Osadolor, Nneke Esther - 2026

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Disruption in the classroom : experimental evidence from Ecuador

Carneiro, Pedro; Cruz Aguayo, Yyannú; Salvati, Francesca; … - 2026

We study how poorly-behaved children affect learning and other outcomes of their peers using data from a unique experiment in Ecuador. Within each school, students were randomly assigned to classrooms in every grade for seven consecutive grades, between kindergarten and 6th grade. Children with...

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The costs of losing admission lotteries : the transition from primary to secondary school in Bremen

Gößl, Thomas; Makles, Anna; Schneider, Kerstin; … - 2026

We study the consequences of losing admission lotteries in a centralized secondary school choice system with early academic tracking. Using administrative student panel data from Bremen, Germany, we exploit random tie-breaking within priority groups under an immediate acceptance mechanism....

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The long reach of targeted smaller classes : evidence from a national reform

2026

This paper examines whether the effects of class size reduction in early primary grades persist through entry to middle school. I exploit France's national reform, launched in 2017, which halved grade 1 and grade 2 class sizes in disadvantaged schools and produced positive and significant...

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The Effect of Charter Schools on Identification, Service Provision, and Achievement of Students with Disabilities

Imberman, Scott A.; Johnson, Andrew S. - 2026

Students with disabilities (SWDs) encompass a sizable share of charter students and have an array of individualized needs. Charter schools may operate differently than traditional public schools with respect to SWDs and special education (SPED), as funding incentives may induce charter schools...

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The long-term effects of rank in elementary school

Dhuey, Elizabeth; Payne, Ana Abigail; Smith, Justin D. - 2025

We estimate the long-term consequences of math and reading rank within an elementary school on short and long-term outcomes. We find that higher rank leads to better outcomes. Students ranked at the top in grade 7 perform up to 0.33 standard deviations higher on future school exams, are more...

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The long-term effects of rank in elementary school

Dhuey, Elizabeth; Payne, Ana Abigail; Smith, Justin D. - 2025

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The impact of performance-based school grants on students' academic achievement : quasi-experimental evidence from Southern Ethiopia

Ahmedin, Mohammed; Liu, Tianyang; Chengfang, Liu - 2026

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The effects of a certificate programme regarding educational mentorship and coaching on the rise of induction programmes for new teachers in Rwandan Primary Schools

Cabus, Sofie; Haelermans, Carla; Flink, Ilse; Gafiligi, … - 2026

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The effect of ordinal rank in school on educational achievement and income in Sweden

Dadgar, Iman - 2025

This study examines the influence of students' ordinal positions in the distribution of grades in their ninth-grade school cohort on subsequent educational and labor market outcomes using population-wide data for Sweden. The identification strategy uses differences between students’ ranks in...

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Do test scores help teachers give better track advice to students? : a principal stratification analysis

Ichino, Andrea; Mealli, Fabrizia; Viviens, Javier - 2025

We study whether access to standardized test scores improves the quality of teachers' secondary school track recommendations, using Dutch data and a metric based on Principal Stratification in a quasi-randomized setting. Allowing teachers to revise their recommendations when test results exceed...

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Different paths to college success : the impact of Massachusetts's charter schools on college trajectories

Cohodes, Sarah R.; Pineda, Astrid C. - 2026

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Bildungswege in der Sekundarstufe I außerhalb des Gymnasiums : eine Bestandsaufnahme der unterschiedlichen Schulformen und -abschlüsse in den Ländern

Geis-Thöne, Wido - 2025 - Stand: April 2025

Vor dem Hintergrund des demografischen Wandels wird es immer wichtiger, dass möglichst alle jungen Menschen in Deutschland zur Fachkraft ausgebildet werden. Ausgangspunkt hierfür ist ein erfolgreicher Besuch der allgemeinbildenden Schulen, wobei insbesondere der nicht-gymnasiale Bereich der...

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Improving the deferred acceptance with minimal compromise

Afacan, Mustafa Oğuz; Dur, Umut Mert; Gitmez, A. Arda; … - 2026

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Voor jou en je kind! : procesevaluatie pilot 2024/2025

Havermans, Willemijn; Smeets, Chayenne; Wetten, Sanne … - 2025

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More channels, lower scores : entertainment television and student achievement

Caria, Andrea; Checchi, Daniele; Paolini, Dimitri; … - 2026

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Beware the gambit : the effects of teacher allocation on learning achievement in Senegalese primary schools

Koussihouede, Oswald; Alidou, Sahawal; Sossou, Damase Eric - 2026

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Beware the gambit: the effects of teacher allocation on learning achievement in Senegalese primary schools

Koussihouede, Oswald; Alidou, Sahawal; Sossou, Damase - 2024

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Why does starting school older harm schooling? : the role of youth employment laws

Attar, Itay; Cohen-Zada, Danny - 2025

Using Israeli data, we establish that the interaction between school entrance age (SEA) policy and youth employment laws increases high school dropout rates among students who start school older - particularly males. This is because these students become eligible for employment at an earlier...

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Discipline reform, school culture and student achievement

Craig, Ashley C.; Martin, David - 2025

Does relaxing strict school discipline improve student achievement, or lead to classroom disorder? We study a 2012 reform in New York City public middle schools that eliminated suspensions for non-violent, disorderly behavior. Math scores of students in more-affected schools rose by 0.05...

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Discipline reform, school culture, and student achievement

Craig, Ashley C.; Martin, David - 2023

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An evaluation of a national program to reduce student absenteeism in high school

Baker, Michael; Drange, Nina; Gjefsen, Hege Marie - 2026

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Public school funding, school quality, and adult crime

Baron, E. Jason; Hyman, Joshua; Vasquez, Brittany - 2026

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Public School Funding, School Quality, and Adult Crime

Baron, E. Jason; Hyman, Joshua; Vasquez, Brittany N. - 2022

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Assessing the impact of official development assistance on primary school performance in Côte d'Ivoire : an econometric analysis

N'Zue, Felix Fofana - 2025

Despite the benefits of education, the learning crisis in the developing world has led the World bank to characterize it as learning poverty. Education is yet to be declared a political priority in most developing countries. Official Development Assistance (ODA), which is a mechanism for...

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