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 …

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 …

groups of pupils to multi-grade classes. We find that school-starters benefit from exposure to second-graders in measures of …

-student variation across subfields in natural science (i.e., physics, chemistry, biology, and Earth science). Using middle-school …

stringent requirements for the admission to the next grade at upper secondary school. We study how such effects are mediated by … changes in family and school inputs, and in the student commitment to learn all school subjects including those usually … activities out of the normal school hours in technical and vocational schools, but not in academic schools. Also, we find that …

conditions of primary school teachers, matching them by the year they entered the profession.After showing that teacher …

We evaluate the impact of the Gambian hardship allowance, which provides a salary premium of 30-40% to primary school …