This paper contributes to what is known about the impact of school quality, by documenting its effect on the incomes of … Black South Africans, using data from the 1996 South African census and two national surveys of school quality. South Africa … provides an interesting laboratory for studying the impact of school quality on labor market outcomes. Under the Apartheid …

by lowering class size. The theory provides a measurable and operational way to define school quality that can be tested … successes, public school incentives differ from those of private schools …

racial composition and enrollment in all schools and school districts in 238 metropolitan areas. The study finds that white … losses appear to be spurred both by interracial contact in districts where their children attend school and by the …

In this paper, we show that the election of a new school board member causes home values in their neighborhood to rise …, including via the manipulation of attendance zones, rather than improvements in school quality (as measured by test score value … Democratic school board candidates. These results suggest that partisan affiliation is correlated with private motivations for …

In this paper, we examine the impact of school shootings on the human health and capital outcomes of middle and high … school student survivors as adults in their twenties and early thirties. Our data on school shooting events is from a recent …, comprehensive database of school shootings compiled by the Center for Homeland Defense and Security. The analytic dataset contains …

We use data on all middle and high school-aged children who survived a mass shooting incident on July 22, 2011 in Utoya … appear to be limited impacts on school-aged peers of survivors. While this event affected the entire country, we show that …

We study the private market response to the National School Lunch Program, documenting economically meaningful …

We find evidence that exposure to universal free school meals through the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) had a … food insecurity for previously eligible low-income families, suggesting that the stigma of free school meals may be …

Using a structural life-cycle model and data on school visits from Safegraph and school closures from Burbio, we … quantify the heterogeneous impact of school closures during the Corona crisis on children affected at different ages and coming …-person learning for longer periods than elementary schools (implying that younger children experienced less school closures than older …

' choices of school sector. We document four central facts. First, public school enrollment declined noticeably in fall 2020 … driven by homeschooling rates jumping substantially, driven largely by families with children in elementary school. Third …