emotionally sensitive children in the school-cohort. We exploit that some children move between schools and thus generate … variation in peer composition in the receiving school-cohort. We identify three groups of potentially disruptive and emotionally …

We estimate the effect of school size on students' long-term outcomes such as high school completion, being out of the … estimators. We use the natural population variation in the residential catchment areas and school openings and closures to … instrument for actual school size. We find a robust positive but numerically fairly small relationship between school size and …

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 …

-secondary education than the students who experienced shorter school closures. Moreover, we show that inequalities across Finnish students …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 …

of peer effect we restrict to no-child-adult-peers who completed their education much before the children in our sample …

heterogeneous by subject, grade in school, gender, timing of class closures, and students' achievements at the beginning of the … school year. Male students from economically disadvantaged households are more susceptible to class closures, and those with … disadvantaged male students are driven not only by reductions in class hours in school, but also by increases in time spent watching …

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 …

children in terms of their language and math performance at the end of primary school. Our paper studies the spill-over effects …