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 … Germany. We find that while students on average reduced their daily learning time of 7.4 hours by about half, the reduction …

ideal for investigating this question. There, students are placed in exam schools based on a high-stakes national … large achievement gains and improved university placements for high achieving students. …

decreased severely during the first school closures, particularly for low-achieving students, and increased only slightly one …If school closures and social-distancing experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic impeded children's skill development …, they may leave a lasting legacy in human capital. To understand the pandemic's effects on school children, this paper …

impact on high school graduation for students who entered high school with the weakest academic preparation, but other … applies to the high school graduating class of 2008 and later. We use a student, longitudinal database for all public school … students in Michigan for the main analyses, and complement this with analyses from a state-year panel. The study employs …

school year. All students, not only struggling students, are pulled out. We find that students in treatment schools increased … years. The intervention includes students aged 7-9 and consists of pulling students from their regular mathematics classes … their performance in mathematics by .16 standard deviations at the end of the school year and by .06 standard deviations in …

We develop a multi-agent model of the education production function where investments of students, parents, and … survey data and a mandate to randomly assign students to classrooms. Consistent with our model, we show that exposure to …

all due to differences in what students bring with them to school - socio-economic background, cultural factors, and the …Students in some countries do far better on international achievement tests than students in other countries. Is this … like? Or do school systems make a difference? This essay argues that differences in features of countries' school systems …

that these effects are most pronounced for students exposed to school closings. Furthermore, students initially enrolled in …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 …

overall null effects. Effects are larger for high-SES students and mostly confined to developed countries. …

- on school performance. We combine data from the National Educational Panel Study covering 5771 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 …