Using a structural life-cycle model, we quantify the long-term impact of school closures during the Corona crisis on … at later stages, and thus younger children are hurt more by the school closures than older children. We find that … parental reactions reduce the negative impact of the school closures, but do not fully offset it. The negative impact of the …

We study the welfare effects of school district consolidation, i.e. the integration of disjoint school districts into a …-demanded districts. Using data from the Hungarian secondary school assignment mechanism, we compute the actual welfare gains from … welfare gains from district consolidation for students, equivalent to attending a school five kilometres closer to the …