In this paper, we collect data on the inner-workings of 39 charter schools and correlate these data with school effectiveness. We find that…
Americans are aware of public education's many failures—the elevated high-school dropout rates, the need for remedial work among entering…
Book abstract: At the beginning of the twentieth century Venezuela had one of the poorest economies in Latin America, but by 1970 it had…
Book abstract: At the beginning of the twentieth century Venezuela had one of the poorest economies in Latin America, but by 1970 it had…
Should federally mandated school accountability and testing requirements be abandoned? With Congress actively considering a major revision…
My hometown — Port Clinton, Ohio, population 6,050 — was in the 1950s a passable embodiment of the American dream, a place that offered…
This working paper seeks to determine the preferences of Boston parents for certain school attributes. It analyzes data provided by the…
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We evaluate a 'girl-friendly' primary school program in Burkina Faso using a regression discontinuity design. After 2.5 years, the program…
Providing the first experimental estimate of the long-term impacts of an offer of a private-school
voucher to low-income families, we link…
"If I like a boy I cannot tell anybody about my choice because I am a girl. I like making friends with boys but being a girl I cannot do…