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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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