We estimate the effect of school size on students' long-term outcomes such as high school completion, being out of the … estimators. We use the natural population variation in the residential catchment areas and school openings and closures to … instrument for actual school size. We find a robust positive but numerically fairly small relationship between school size and …

Schooling is related to health and future labor market outcomes. The school parents choose for their children often … the school depends only on objective measures of the quality of the school. We examine the association between children … parental satisfaction with all aspects of children's schooling. The results have implications related to school rankings and …

(HRT) with additional classroom management duties significantly improves students' test scores and cognitive and …. More experienced or female HRTs are also associated with a better classroom environment, more self-motivated students, more …

Due to increased financial pressures following the Great Recession, a growing number of school districts have switched … from a traditional five-day school week to a four-day week schedule. While these shorter school weeks potentially help … reduce costs, this study considers the implications these school schedules have on student achievement. This study uses a …

This paper studies the impact of a lottery-based desegregation program that allows minority students to transfer to … seven school districts serving higher-income, predominantly-white families. While prior research has studied the impacts of … such a program receiving students, this paper studies the effects on participating students. In the short run, students who …

mathematics among early primary school children in Norway, a low testing environment. We examine two forms of testing, complex but … screening tests on low-performing students. While we demonstrate no negative effects on student welfare, we do find an … indication that testing improves aspects of teaching practices and students' perceptions of teacher feedback and engagement. …

were most pronounced among primary school students and among students with special needs or from vulnerable environments …. The program compensated for summer learning loss, as treatment group students returned to school in September with higher …We conducted a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of a summer learning program for vulnerable students …

Without a school degree, students can have difficulty in the labor market. To improve the lives of upper …-secondary school dropouts, German states instituted a school reform that awarded an interim degree to high-track students upon … completion of Grade 9. Using retrospective spell data on school and labor market careers from the National Educational Panel …

encourage women to enter male-dominated fields, and students of both genders pursue more difficult majors, such as STEM fields …. These findings imply that the economic environment changes how students select majors, possibly by encouraging them to …