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 …

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 …

asymmetry: males do not and females do benefit from exposure to more female classmates with less school absence and improvement …

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 …

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 …

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 …

TFA teacher on test scores across the entire achievement distribution of primary school students in disadvantaged …

error in the peer background variable. When we correct for measurement error we find within school estimates close to the …

Using unique survey data on rural secondary school children, this paper evaluates the relative quality of Islamic …