the effects of increased access to student loans on credit-constrained students' educational attainment, earnings, debt …

deviation deterioration of the average grade. Further, the effect is heterogenous as female and higher income students seem …We study how class size and composition affect the academic and labor market performances of college students, two … crucial policy questions given the secular increase in college enrollment. We rely on the random assignment of students to …

Do increased instruction hours improve the performance of all students? Using PISA scores of students in ninth grade …) overalmost five years. In the additional time, students are taught new learning content. On average, the reform improves student …-performing students do not benefit, high-performing students benefit the most. The findings suggest that increases in instruction hours …

sensitive children from detailed Danish register data: children with divorced parents, children with parents convicted of crime … emotionally sensitive children in the school-cohort. We exploit that some children move between schools and thus generate …, and children with a psychiatric diagnosis. We find that adding potentially disruptive children lowers the academic …

We examine whether and how teachers' major fields of study affect students' achievement, exploiting within …-school students' data from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study and controlling student-teacher fixed effects, we … find that teachers with college majors in natural sciences improve students' achievement of subfields in natural sciences …

Children around the world largely rely on the formal educational system to teach them foundational mathematics and … students in grades 4-10 students. The three rounds enable us to examine trends in these skills from the turn of the millennium … to 2019. We find that a significant proportion of higher-grade students have not yet mastered these foundational skills …