We present the first quantitative analysis of the impact of ending de jure segregation of Mexican-American school … to the Mendez court ruling based on school start age. Results point to a significant increase in educational attainment … for Hispanics who were fully exposed to school desegregation. …

secondary school students' unexcused absences grow steadily throughout a school year and over grades, while the growth of … excused absences remain essentially unchanged. Importantly, students starting the school year with a high number of unexcused … all aspects of school culture than their peers. Interventions targeting unexcused absences and/or improving school culture …

We examine the role of school closures in contributing to the negative labor market impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic …. We collect detailed daily information on school closures at the school-district level, which we merge to individual level … 2019 through May 2020. Using a difference-in-differences estimation approach, we gauge how the intensity of school closures …

While over 240,000 American students experienced a school shooting in the last two decades, little is known about the … examine the effects of 44 school shootings on youth antidepressant use in a difference-in-difference framework. We find that … local exposure to fatal school shootings increases youth antidepressant use by 21.4 percent in the following two years …

-grade cohort in the American Community Survey. Cohorts with more exposure are more likely to graduate from high school and earn …

. Using regression discontinuity (RDD) methods, combined with dates on school year start and end dates by locality, we … document several notable results. First, mothers are substantially more affected by the school year than are fathers. When … school is in session, mothers sleep less, spend more time caring for family members and driving them around, and spend less …

teacher and student absences, school closures, and disturbances to usual classroom routines. Similarly, they might also … to the attacks. The main results indicate that the attacks significantly reduced school-level proficiency rates in … grade math proficiency, suggesting that the shootings caused a decline in school proficiency rates of about five to nine …