We investigate the effects of incentivizing early prenatal care utilization on infant health by exploiting a reform … health. We further provide suggestive evidence that improved maternal health-related knowledge and behaviors during pregnancy … are plausible channels through which the reform might have affected fetal health …

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 …

developing perspective-taking ability in children. The program is implemented in a high-stakes context where the ethnic … composition in schools has changed due to a massive influx of refugee children. We measure a comprehensive set of outcomes that … characterize a cohesive school environment, including peer violence incidents, the prevalence of inter-ethnic social ties, and …

. Beyond religious attitudes, the reform led to more equalized gender roles, fewer marriages and children, and higher labor …-market participation and earnings. The reform did not affect ethical and political values or non-religious school outcomes …

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 …

’ to advice parents and school boards on school starting age. In the early reform period, children born close to the …We consider long-term impacts of establishing school psychology offices in Norway, which introduced ‘maturity testing … normative age cut-off who reached school-starting age after the establishment were more likely to finish compulsory schooling …

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 … increased weekly instruction time and study its effects on stress-related outpatient diagnoses from the universe of health …

and with transition to high school — potentially because mothers used the time at home to encourage their children to … 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 …