Educational policy-makers around the world constantly make decisions about how to use scarce resources to improve the education of children. Unfortunately, their decisions are …
DV Handel, EA Hanushek - Handbook of the Economics of Education, 2023 - Elsevier
The impact of school resources on student outcomes was first raised in the 1960s and has been controversial since then. This issue enters into the decision-making on school finance …
This article evaluates the long-term effects of class size in primary school. We use rich data from Sweden and exploit variation in class size created by a maximum class size rule …
We use Maimonides' rule as an instrument for class size in large Israeli samples from 2002– 2011. In contrast with Angrist and Lavy (1999), newer estimates show no evidence of class …
Education policy‐makers and practitioners want to know which policies and practices can best achieve their goals. But research that can inform evidence‐based policy often requires …
The reduction of early school leaving to less than 10 percent of the relevant population by 2020 is a headline target in the Europe 2020 strategy and one of the five benchmarks of the …
Instrumental variables (IV) estimates show strong class-size effects in Southern Italy. But Italy's Mezzogiorno is distinguished by manipulation of standardized test scores as well as …
We present a field experiment investigating treatment effects of an additional teacher in the classroom on student learning. The treatment targets literacy instruction during first and …
Teacher Labor Market Equilibrium and Student Achievement Page 1 DISCUSSION PAPER SERIES IZA DP No. 15052 Michael Bates Michael Dinerstein Andrew C. Johnston Isaac Sorkin …