language classes in compulsory school on students' subsequent educational choices in upper secondary school. Using … more foreign language classes during compulsory school has only minor effects on educational choices of the overall student … pronounced for students who do not speak at home the school's language of instruction. Finally, we find that female students who …

The impact of school resources on the quality of education in developing countries may depend crucially on whether … resources are targeted efficiently. In this paper we use a randomized experiment to analyze the impact of a school grants … focused funds on human resources improvements rather than school materials, suggesting that teachers and principals may be a …

This paper analyzes the impact of longer school schedules on children's 2nd grade reading comprehension skills in Chile … choose full-day schools, and after controlling for selection, longer school schedules lead to an increase of 0.14 standard …) and urban schools, and among girls. We also find that the benefits of longer school days accumulate over time. …

Does relaxing strict school discipline improve student achievement, or lead to classroom disorder? We study a 2012 … are associated with improvements in school culture, as measured by the quality of student-teacher relationships and … perceptions of safety at school. We find no evidence of trade-offs between students, with students benefiting even if they were …

effect of a reform that lengthened school schedules from half to full days in Chile - essentially providing zero …

Using data from 12 European countries and the variation across countries and over time in the changes of minimum school … leaving age, we study the effects of the quantity of education on the distribution of earnings. We find that compulsory school …

reforms increasing instructional time in Swedish primary school. The reforms extended the compulsory years of schooling from 6 … in more than 2,500 school districts, the extensions generated large exogenous variation in educational attainment at … different points in primary school while the overall school system and curricula remained unchanged. The reforms thus constitute …

Education policy worldwide has sought to incentivize school improvement and facilitate pupil-school matching by … school system - the academy programme - which gave existing state schools greater autonomy, but provided limited information … on possible expected benefits. We use administrative data on school applications for three cohorts of students to …

We examine the mortality effects of a 1947 school reform in Japan, which extended compulsory schooling from primary to … secondary school by as much as 3 years. The abolition of secondary school fees also indicates that those affected by the reform …