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 … on the conceptual framework of an education production function, we cover evidence on child, parent, and school inputs …

Is improved school accessibility an effective policy tool for reducing child labor in developing countries? We address … school. Consistent with a simple model of child labor supply, but contrary to what appears to be a widespread perception, our … analysis shows that school proximity leads to a rise in school attendance but no fall in child labor. …

This paper evaluates the effects of a high school curriculum reform that was introduced in one German state on high … school dropout. The reform increased the standards of the curriculum by reducing the freedom of choice in course selection … states, we identify the reform effect on students ́probability to graduate from high school. The results show that high …