strategies. To explain the data, we introduce expectation-based loss aversion into a school-choice setting and characterize …

, even after conditioning on prior measures of school performance. We then provide causal evidence that a low …

school track suitable for their child, changing the purpose of the primary teacher's recommendation from mandatory to … rates to the higher school tracks increased substantially, with stronger responses among children from richer districts …. Simultaneously, grade repetition in the first grades of secondary school increased dramatically, suggesting that parents choose …

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 …

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 …

’ choices of school sector. We document four central facts. First, public school enrollment declined noticeably in fall 2020 … driven by homeschooling rates jumping substantially, driven largely by families with children in elementary school. Third …

-market participation and earnings. The reform did not affect ethical and political values or non-religious school outcomes …

This paper analyzes housing market reactions to the release of previously unpublished information on school quality …. Using the sharp discontinuity in the information environment allows us to study price changes within school catchment areas …, thus controlling for neighborhood unobservables. We find a substantial housing market reaction to publication of school …

experiment across seven colleges to evaluate the algorithm’s effects on students. Placement rates into college-level courses …

We report results from a large-scale, pre-registered randomized field experiment in 159 Norwegian schools over four … school year. All students, not only struggling students, are pulled out. We find that students in treatment schools increased … their performance in mathematics by .16 standard deviations at the end of the school year and by .06 standard deviations in …