We study the effect of school closures and the transition from on-site to on-line teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic … in the Finnish upper secondary schools. To identify the effects we exploit variation in the length of school closure …-secondary education than the students who experienced shorter school closures. Moreover, we show that inequalities across Finnish students …

students who volunteer for 3 to 6 hours per week. They were randomly assigned to middle school students, from a list of … potential beneficiaries compiled by school principals. Using original survey data collected from students, parents, teachers and …

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. …

Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary-school … between primary and secondary school across tracked and non-tracked systems. Six international student assessments provide … ; selectivity ; comprehensive school system ; education performance ; inequality ; international student achievement test ; TIMSS …

effects of attending a more advanced track in middle school on long-term education and labor market outcomes for Germany, a … favorable long-term outcomes. We attribute this result to the up- and downgrading of students between tracks after middle school … exposure to a less advanced school environment. …

Previous research shows that, in tracked school systems, enrollment decisions are strongly associated with future … collected within the Arianna Project, an independent school track counseling service run by the municipality of a large city in … school. We show that students' enrollment intentions are very often inconsistent with their actual potential as revealed by …

PISA scores are an internationally established indicator of student and school performance. This paper builds on the … scores are associated with individual early school dropouts. It distinguishes between student and school factors and … estimates a model of the propensity to drop out from school between ages 15 and 18. The paper finds that PISA scores are a good …

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 …