We estimate the effect of school size on students' long-term outcomes such as high school completion, being out of the … labor market, and earnings at the age of 30. We use rich register data on the entire population of Danish children attending … mainly to be driven by boys, students from families with a low educational level and students attending schools in urban …

are consistent with these grades being insufficiently salient for students to alter actual student behaviors …

education. Although to some extent picking up inherited and acquired skills, our results suggest that if parents exhibit gender … stereotypical labour market behaviour, children of the same sex are more likely to choose a gender stereotypical education. The …

Without a school degree, students can have difficulty in the labor market. To improve the lives of upper …-secondary school dropouts, German states instituted a school reform that awarded an interim degree to high-track students upon …-track completion, university entrance rates, and later income, arguably by reducing the perceived risk of trying longer in the high …

large region in Denmark. The sample is merged with register information on parents and students observed until the age of 19 … and parent evaluations of the Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) of about 6,000 children born in 1990-92 in a … larger when based on parents' SDQ scores compared to teachers' SDQ scores. According to our estimations, the school outcomes …

- on school performance. We combine data from the National Educational Panel Study covering 5348 primary school students …

that these effects are most pronounced for students exposed to school closings. Furthermore, students initially enrolled in …

-- on children's long-term life satisfaction. The historical setting under study, namely the former German Democratic …