predict in-school performance without bias. Furthermore, VA is strongly related to long-term outcomes, and differences between … mechanisms of school quality, the findings help connect learning outcomes with later labor market outcomes, e.g. for cost … differences between schools influence longer-term outcomes, especially outside the US. In this paper I study the value-added (VA …

argue that low-achieving students may be particularly affected by the lack of educator support during school closures. We … collect detailed time-use information on students before and during the school closures in a survey of 1,099 parents in …

the long-term effect of the Covid-19-related school closures on aggregate productivity through the human capital channel … school closure, respectively. These results appear to be broadly consistent with earlier findings in the literature. Two … be needed to offset or, at least, alleviate the impact of the pandemic on human capital …

The present paper examines the impact of ability matching and differentiated instruction on the learning outcomes of … impact of the financial education programme. The paper provides evidence on the effects of both practices using two … financial proficiency of students by 0.18 standard deviations. Although the learning outcomes of the average student are not …

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

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 …

- on school performance. We combine data from the National Educational Panel Study covering 5348 primary school students …This paper studies the effect of longer school days - induced by voluntary all-day programs in German primary schools … 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 …

effect of aid generosity on college performance and labor market outcomes. The results show that students with a higher cost …