This paper provides new evidence on the effect of school construction projects on home prices, academic achievement …, and public school enrollment. Taking advantage of the staggered implementation of a comprehensive school construction … school construction raised reading scores for elementary and middle school students by 0.027 standard deviations. For a …

involuntary school choice, using survey data and standardized test scores from field work conducted in Shanghai. We find that … in both Chinese and Mathematics. We also use parental satisfaction and parental assessment of school quality as …

Behavioral problems are important determinants of school outcomes and later success in the labor market. We analyze … whether behavioral problems affect girls and boys differently with respect to school outcomes. The study is based on teacher … larger when based on parents' SDQ scores compared to teachers' SDQ scores. According to our estimations, the school outcomes …

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

stringent disciplinary environments in response to their earlier-born children's poor performance in school in order to deter … such outcomes for their later-born offspring. We provide robust empirical evidence that school performance of children in …

hours on household chores also reduces.We find that school enrollment and child labor are highly substitutable in rural … more successful than child labor laws in combatting child labor—as monitoring school enrollment is much easier …

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 …

' biological clocks shift to later in the day as they enter adolescence. Some school districts have moved to later start times for … the effect of high school start times on student learning. We use longitudinal data from the Child Development Supplement …-representative sample of students. We also use the CDS time diaries to explore the effects of high school start times on students' time …

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 …