In our current challenging budgetary environment, school closures remain a potentially attractive choice. With a large … panel of Illinois schools from 1991 to 2005, I investigate which factors contribute to school closures. Among elementary …. Administrators may claim that low enrolments and high spending motivate school closures, but in Illinois, that is not the whole story …

causal effect of class size on school tracking outcomes after elementary school. Our identification strategy relies on the … tracked into more or less academic middle school types at about age ten based, to a large extent, on academic achievement in … elementary school. We mostly find no or small effects of class size in elementary school on receiving a recommendation or on the …

unexpectedly increased education attainment as more students chose to complete the next school stage. This impact is almost … reduced school costs combined with strongly non-linear returns to female education …

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 …

-student variation across subfields in natural science (i.e., physics, chemistry, biology, and Earth science). Using middle-school …

outside school hours, are private information, the second-best policy makes school enrollment compulsory, forces overt child …

substantially increased education in Turkey. Using the number of new middle school class openings per 1000 children as an intensity … measure for the 1997 reform, we find that, on average, one additional middle school class increases the probability of … generated by the 1997 reform and the accompanying middle school class openings. The insignificance of the health effect may be …

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 …