Using a structural life-cycle model, we quantify the long-term impact of school closures during the Corona crisis on … at later stages, and thus younger children are hurt more by the school closures than older children. We find that … parental reactions reduce the negative impact of the school closures, but do not fully offset it. The negative impact of the …

percent of U.S. youths had high school diplomas in 1910, but more than 50 percent did by 1940. By the mid-1950s the United …-series variation within the United States. The areas of the United States that led in secondary school education (the Far West, Great … income or wealth, also fostered the extension of education to the secondary school level …

on micro-level census data, we describe racial differences in literacy rates, school attendance, years of educational …

This paper estimates the effects of school quality - - measured by the pupil-teacher ratio, the average term length … between the return to education and measures of school quality is similar for blacks and whites. Since improvements in school … reinforces a causal interpretation of the link between school quality and earnings. We also find that returns to schooling are …

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 …

The impact of school resources on the quality of education in developing countries may depend crucially on whether … resources are targeted efficiently. In this paper we use a randomized experiment to analyze the impact of a school grants … focused funds on human resources improvements rather than school materials, suggesting that teachers and principals may be a …

This paper: i) estimates the effect that going to a better school has on students' academic achievement, and ii …) explores whether this intervention induces behavioral responses on the part of children, their parents, and the school system …'s high school educational system. For the second, we use data from a specialized survey of children, parents, teachers and …