This study employs the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) technique, an efficiency model, to measure public schools in Thailand. Data came from 455 public upper secondary schools in Northern Thailand. The results reveal that the schools mostly operate inefficiently. To ascertain the efficiency measures, sensitivity analysis reveals the robustness of the resulting efficiency measures on efficiency....

This paper exploits an unusual merit-based procedure, employed by Malawi’s Ministry of Education to select pupils into public secondary schools, to identify the e¤ect of the quality of secondary schools on both pupil learning and pupil retention. The analysis is based on unique matched institutional data that cover an entire cohort of pupils selected into Malawi’s public secondary schools. Esti...