School authorities, universities, and employers often schedule multiple tests on the same day or week, causing … school. I leverage the empirical setting on two natural experiments to estimate the causal effect of this multitasking …

attend based in part on the expected economic return and net costs. In this paper we explicitly model high school students … estimate selectivity corrected outcome equations, using data from both the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class … of 1972 and High School and Beyond, which permit us to determine the effects of college quality on wages and earnings and …

%. The school attendance rate of six-year-olds has not decreased; rather, they are increasingly likely to be enrolled in … can be proximately explained by changes in school entry laws; the rest reflects "academic redshirting," the practice of …-year-olds reverberates well beyond the kindergarten classroom. Recent stagnation in the high school and college completion rates of young …

The option to obtain a General Education Development (GED) certificate changes the incentives facing high school … students. This paper evaluates the effect of three different GED policy innovations on high school graduation rates. A six … high school dropout rates. The introduction of a GED certification program in high schools in Oregon produced a four …

of the era's elite. The membership premium persists after conditioning on high school, legacy status, and even family … effects are driven entirely by large gains for private school students. In the long run, a shift from the 25th percentile of … residential peer group status to the 75th percentile raises the rate at which private school students work in finance by 41% and …

of accelerated entry into algebra on student performance in math courses as students progress through high school …

We study the impact of a public school choice lottery in Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools on college enrollment and degree … school. Using rich administrative data on peers, teachers, course offerings and other inputs, we show that the impacts of … choice are strongly predicted by gains on several measures of school quality. Gains in attainment are concentrated among …

Many personal and policy decisions turn on perceptions of school effectiveness, defined here as the causal effect of … attendance at a particular school or set of schools on student test scores and other outcomes. Widely-disseminated school ratings … random and quasi-experimental variation to measure school effectiveness. This chapter reviews these empirical strategies …

and the school calendar. We show that suicides among 12-to-18-year-olds are highest during months of the school year and … many K-12 schools returned to in-person instruction. Third, using county-level variation in school reopenings in Fall 2020 … and Spring 2021--proxied by anonymized SafeGraph smartphone data on elementary and secondary school foot traffic--we find …