personal and family characteristics, and between child mental health and educational progress. Our contribution is to use … progress. Maternal education and mental health, family income, and major adverse life events, are all significant in explaining …

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 …

This study employs Chilean administrative data to investigate the impact of School Starting Age (SSA) on the … concerns, we identify benefits linked to commencing school at a later age. Our findings demonstrate that children starting … school at an older age enroll in institutions with higher average scores in standardized tests and interact with older peers …

study of twins. This allows us to control for family fixed effects, i.e. shared genetic and environmental factors, and …

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 …

enter (primary) school. Early age at school entry significantly affects mobility and reduces the relative advantage of …

While over 240,000 American students experienced a school shooting in the last two decades, little is known about the … examine the effects of 44 school shootings on youth antidepressant use in a difference-in-difference framework. We find that … local exposure to fatal school shootings increases youth antidepressant use by 21.4 percent in the following two years …

While cost savings is the primary motivation for the switch to four-day school weeks in many school districts, do these … school schedules save school districts any money? To answer this question, this study uses a difference …-in-differences analysis using a unique, self-collected longitudinal dataset of four-day school week use from 1999-2015 and National Center for …

designated primary schools.Whereas the multi-school dicing policy involves randomly assigning previously ineligible pupils to key … elementary schools through lotteries, the policy of school federation led by elite schools consolidates ordinary primary schools … through alliance with elite schools. Moreover, the designated primary school for a residential complex can change from an …