The consequences of gender social and learning interactions in the classroom are of interest to parents, policy makers …, and researchers. However, little is known about gender peer effects in schools and their operational channels. In this … paper, we estimate the effects of classroom gender composition on scholastic achievements of boys and girls in Israeli …

strong students during treatment. To our knowledge, this is the first time that a school intervention has been identified in …

accident had worse school outcomes than adjacent birth cohorts, and this deterioration was largest for those exposed …: students from the eight most affected municipalities were 3.6 percentage points less likely to qualify to high school as a …

administrative records, we estimate the causal effect of school quality on the gender gap in educational outcomes by contrasting … received in childhood. We assess whether this is also true for schooling inputs. Using matched Florida birth and school …-family variation in school quality arising from family moves. Investigating middle school test scores, absences and suspensions, we …

We document and analyze the emergence of a substantial gender gap in mathematics in the early years of schooling using … between boys and girls upon entry to school, but girls lose more than two-tenths of a standard deviation relative to boys over … the first six years of school. The ground lost by girls relative to boys is roughly half as large as the black-white test …

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 …