higher risk of later grade retention and dropout. Leveraging existing school inputs for a light-touch, cost-effective, and …

universal random assignment of students to high schools in certain areas of South Korea to provide estimates of school effects … that may better reflect the effects of school practices. We find significant effects of schools on scores in high …-stakes college entrance exams: a 1 standard deviation increase in school quality leads to 0.06-0.08 standard deviations higher …

This paper analyzes the impact of longer school days on student achievement in Colombia. To identify the impact of … longer schools days, this study exploits plausibly exogenous within school variation in the length of the school day. Using … test score data from 5th and 9th graders in 2002, 2005, and 2009, along with school administrative data, this research uses …

with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. It can show, for … example, that an improvement in parental outside options will reduce parental and school effort, which are partially … compensated through school resources. In this way, by incorporating the behavioral responses of parents, teachers and policymakers …

. Pupils who returned to school saw their learning time rise substantially, even conditional on observable and unobservable …In England, school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic represented a sudden but relatively long-lasting shock to … partial and voluntary return to school over this period. We find little evidence that children adapted to home learning over …

Although many students suffer from anxiety and depression, and often identify school pressure and concerns about their … futures as the main reasons for their worries, little is known about the consequences of a selective school environment on … enroll in a more selective high school increases the probability of enrollment in higher education and decreases the …

specifically good match with their children. I investigate the effect of attending a preferred school on student achievement in … assignment which awards school offer based on admission priority, residential distance, and parental preference. I compare … school of choice increases student achievement compared to an institution with lower parental preference but same value …