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 …. Segregation is further exacerbated by "white flight" as white students transfer out of the district after attending more …

We exploit variation stemming from school consolidations in Denmark from 2010-2011 to analyze the impact on student … achievement as measured by test scores. For each student we observe enrollment and test scores one year prior to school … consolidation and up to four years after. We find that school consolidation has adverse effects on achievement in the short run and …

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 5771 primary school students … with municipality-level information on all-day school investments. Facing the challenge of selection into all-day school …

comparable industries. While one would expect younger forestry workers to return to school in such circumstances, we find that in … the first two years following the crisis, unemployed workers did not go back to school. But going back to school takes …

literature which indicates that peer effects cannot be estimated without taking into account the role of school decision makers …. We present indicative empirical evidence that gender peer effects in the Norwegian elementary school are conditional upon …

Using an originally constructed dataset that follows 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to the labor market …, we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic … performance and their labor market income. We exploit the within-school, cohort-by-cohort variation in the gender composition of …