This paper reviews the research on the impacts of charter school attendance on students'
academic and other outcomes, the mechanisms behind those effects, and the influence of …

School-choice programs may increase schools' incentives for marketing rather than
improving their educational offering. This article systematically reviews the literature on the …

This paper studies the origins of what has become one of the most radical and
encompassing programmes of school reform seen in the recent past in advanced countries …

A significant number of people have very low levels of literacy in many OECD countries. This
paper studies a national change in policy and practice in England that refocused the …

Can the quality of school management explain differences in student test scores? In this
paper, I present the first internationally benchmarked estimates of school management …

To what extent does crime follow the pattern of potential gains to illegal activity? This article
presents evidence on how criminals respond to this key incentive by reporting crime–price …

The UK change of government in 2010 provoked a large structural change in the English
education landscape. Unexpectedly, the new government offered primary schools the …

The English education system has undergone large‐scale restructuring through the
introduction of academy schools. The most salient feature of these schools is that, despite …

In the past few decades, several countries have introduced reforms aimed at increasing
school autonomy. We evaluate the effect of the introduction of autonomous academies in …

This article examines the changing landscape of public service provision in the UK during
austerity. Austerity is presented through the notions of retrenchment, decentralisation and …