%. The school attendance rate of six-year-olds has not decreased; rather, they are increasingly likely to be enrolled in … can be proximately explained by changes in school entry laws; the rest reflects "academic redshirting," the practice of …-year-olds reverberates well beyond the kindergarten classroom. Recent stagnation in the high school and college completion rates of young …

The time that children spend in school varies across countries. Do these differences explain international gaps in … productivity of instructional time is higher in countries which implemented school accountability measures or that gave schools …

. Eliminating in-person schooling reduces the amount of labour time parents of school-aged children have available to work, and …

provide low-quality education. In this paper I examine this claim using a 1947 reform that increased the minimum school …

The province of Ontario has two publicly funded school systems: secular schools (known as public schools) that are open … independently and receive equal funding per student. In this paper we use detailed school and student-level data to assess whether … competition between the systems leads to improved efficiency. Building on a simple model of school choice, we argue that …

School quality and grade completion by students are shown to be directly linked, leading to very different perspectives … on educational policy in developing countries. Unique panel data on primary school age children in Egypt permit … estimation of behavioral models of school leaving. Students perceive differences in school quality, measured as expected …