asymmetry: males do not and females do benefit from exposure to more female classmates with less school absence and improvement …

learning loss due to COVID-19 but also European performance trends and national policy changes. The study illustrates the … education performance decline in Europe by providing information on 20 year reading achievement trends, average performance …

Suspension from school is a commonly-used, yet controversial, school disciplinary measure. This paper uses unique … may continue to play a role in school discipline without harming the educational prospects of those sanctioned. …

Using unique survey data on rural secondary school children, this paper evaluates the relative quality of Islamic …

We exploit variation stemming from school consolidations in Denmark from 2010- 2011 to analyze the impact on student … achievement as measured by test scores. For each student we observe enrollment and test scores one year prior to school … consolidation and up to four years after. We find that school consolidation has adverse effects on achievement in the short run and …

and private schooling on student scores in Australia. We control for observable and unobservable influences, at school and …

-variable approach that exploits an exogenous shock to the Catholic school system, we show that the positive correlation between Catholic …

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 …

We know surprisingly little about the influence of race-blind school admissions on student outcomes. This paper studies … a unique reform where a large, urban school district was federally mandated to adopt a race-blind lottery system to fill …-blind lotteries dramatically segregated subsequent magnet school cohorts. I show that race-blind admissions caused the more segregated …