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 …

comportment grading across German federal states to estimate its causal effect on students’ school-to-work transitions as well …

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 …

driven by homeschooling rates jumping substantially, driven largely by families with children in elementary school. Third …’ choices of school sector. We document four central facts. First, public school enrollment declined noticeably in fall 2020 … was remote, suggesting heterogeneity in parental concerns about children’s physical health and instructional quality …

We examine U.S. children whose parents won the lottery to trace out the effect of financial resources on college …

We introduce a novel incentive program aimed at decreasing school absenteeism based on the effect of voluntary promises … having achieved a school attendance rate of at least 90 percent, in the promise program, they receive the reward up front … promise program through a field study involving Indigenous Australian high school students, a population who tends to have …

Using a rich dataset that merges student-level school records with birth records, and leveraging a student fixed … effects design, we explore how the massive scale-up of a Florida private school choice program affected public school students … suspension rates) attending public schools closer to more pre-program private school options. Effects are particularly pronounced …

using county-level panel data in the United States. Using data on foot traffic and K-12 school opening plans, we analyze how … cases. We also find that the positive association of K-12 school visits or in-person school openings with case growth is …

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 …