-achieving students. The reduction in learning time was not larger for children from lower-educated parents, but it was larger for boys … collect detailed time-use information on students before and during the school closures in a survey of 1,099 parents in … argue that low-achieving students may be particularly affected by the lack of educator support during school closures. We …

and students' cognitive and socio-emotional development. The German panel evidence shows that children's learning time …If school closures and social-distancing experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic impeded children's skill development …, they may leave a lasting legacy in human capital. To understand the pandemic's effects on school children, this paper …

addressing unobserved residence-country features, we find similar results when assigning migrant students their country …

increasing the informational content of grades, central exams may improve the sorting of students by productivity. To test this …, we exploit the unique German setting where students from states with and without central exams work on the same labor …

. The results show that substituting lacking family support by other adults can help disadvantaged children at adolescent …

Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary …

dataset from the four waves of international PISA tests spanning 2000-2009, comprising over one million students in 42 …

overall null effects. Effects are larger for high-SES students and mostly confined to developed countries. …

Students in some countries do far better on international achievement tests than students in other countries. Is this … all due to differences in what students bring with them to school – socio-economic background, cultural factors, and the …