School closures in the context of COVID-19 have been shown to magnify that problem, with at least seven million …-person classes return, interventions to motivate students to remain in school until then have been overlooked. In particular … developing countries before the pandemic. Having said that, such nudges typically work by leading parents to show up in school to …

The role of school principals largely resembles that of corporate managers and the leadership they provide is often … outcomes, by constructing a principal-school panel data set that allows us to track individual principals as they move between … schools. We find that individual principals have a substantive impact on school policies, working conditions and student …

.e., coronavirus disease 2019) outbreak by providing paid sick leave, tax credits, and free virus testing; expanding food assistance …

-existing learning crisis is expected to be magnified during school shutdown. Despite efforts to put distance learning strategies in … adolescents to stay in school effective amidst the pandemic? Here we show that, in Brazil, nudges via text messages to high-school … students, to motivate them to stay engaged with school activities, substantially reduced dropouts during school shutdown, and …