combining population-level birth and school records from Florida. This research question is complicated by substantial school … immigrant students in the school. We propose a new identification strategy to partial out the unobserved non-random selection …

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 …

We examine the educational production function and efficiency of public school districts in Illinois. Using … in school districts. Moreover, the level of test scores, commonly used as a measure of school effectiveness, (while … related) differs substantially from our efficiency scores, and standard parametric approaches drastically underestimate school …

public schooling. We develop a theory which integrates private education and fertility decisions with voting on public … theory are consistent with state-level and micro data from the United States as well as cross-country evidence from the PISA …

for the efficient provision of goods and services in a market economy. This paper explores the implications of school … measure of ability dispersion in a school, leading to lower skill acquisition …

The central vs. local nature of high-school exit exam systems can have important repercussions on the labor market. By … high-school grades is indeed 6 percent when obtained on central exams but less than 2 percent when obtained on local exams …