. When there are no peer group effects, efficiency is achieved when (at least) all but one school are public. In particular … in the two school case, the impact of a public school is spectacular as we go from a setting of extreme differentiation … to an efficient allocation. However, in the three school case, a single public school will lower welfare compared to the …

twentieth century, the introduction of mass secondary school education and the expansion of the number of universities widened …

Prior research shows reduced criminality to be a beneficial consequence of education policies that raise the school …

variation provided by school reforms increasing compulsory education and minimum school leaving age. If these reforms are … correlated to changes in school quality, and school quality is an omitted variable, this identification strategy may fail. We …

is appropriate and whether cross-country evidence supports a case for the economic benefits of effective school policy … skills when instrumented by institutional features of school systems. Second, home-country cognitive-skill levels strongly …

.S., Canada and some European countries shows that children who enter school relatively young have higher ADHD rates than their … administrative health insurance claims data from Germany we study the effects of relative school entry age on ADHD risk in Europe … education. We find robust evidence for school-entry age related misdiagnosis of ADHD in Germany. Within Germany and …