This paper studies a school district that was federally mandated to adopt a race-blind lottery system to fill seats in … lotteries by race to offset its predominantly black applicant pools. The change dramatically segregated subsequent magnet school …

This paper studies the effect of longer school days - induced by voluntary all-day programs in German primary schools … - on school performance. We combine data from the National Educational Panel Study covering 5348 primary school students … with municipality-level information on all-day school investments. Facing the challenge of selection into all-day school …

) of Norwegian schools, where between-school differences are smaller than in the US. I find that VA indicators are able to … predict in-school performance without bias. Furthermore, VA is strongly related to long-term outcomes, and differences between … differences in school quality, rather than unobserved student characteristics. Analyses of teacher grades and exam scores suggest …

boundaries. We use changes in school boundaries and the proposal of a new school. Our findings from redistricting in the Fayette … county school district (KY) show that prices for homes redistricted from a lower-performing (based on test scores) school … into the proposed school catchment area increase by six percent. For houses in higher-performing school catchment areas …

We study the literature on school financial education programs for children and youth via a quantitative meta …

This paper studies whether specialized academic fields of study in secondary school, which are common in many countries …-best choice, together with nationwide register data for school cohorts from 1977-1991 linked to their earnings as adults. Our …

While several studies suggest that stress-related mental health problems among school children are related to specific … states, we show that the reform slightly increased stress-related health problems among school children. While increasing …

for grade 9 students. These students were particularly vulnerable to dropping out of school prematurely due to the crisis …. We find that most students kept studying during the crisis, returned to school to participate in the lower …-secondary graduation exam after schools reopened, and transitioned to high school thereafter. However, we also find that students’ exposure …

middle school faced the longest closures. A structural model of human capital accumulation predicts that the US school …