emotionally sensitive children in the school-cohort. We exploit that some children move between schools and thus generate … variation in peer composition in the receiving school-cohort. We identify three groups of potentially disruptive and emotionally … sensitive children from detailed Danish register data: children with divorced parents, children with parents convicted of crime …

emotionally sensitive children in the school-cohort. We exploit that some children move between schools and thus generate … variation in peer composition in the receiving school-cohort. We identify three groups of potentially disruptive and emotionally … sensitive children from detailed Danish register data: children with divorced parents, children with parents convicted of crime …

affect younger sibling's education choices and early career earnings. We focus on critical course choices in high school and …

hypotheses. Using two rich Indian data sets, we find that the <p> reduction in child labor and/or non-school-enrollment from 1987 …> counteracting effect comes from an increased need for and an increased value of substituting <p> children for working household …

In this paper we investigate what affects school attendance and child labour in an LDC, using data for Zambia. Since … both economic and sociological variables are important determinants for the choice between school attendance and child … labour. In particular, we find some support for the hypothesis that poverty forces households to keep their children away …

We exploit variation stemming from school consolidations in Denmark from 2010- 2011 to analyze the impact on student … achievement as measured by test scores. For each student we observe enrollment and test scores one year prior to school … consolidation and up to four years after. We find that school consolidation has adverse effects on achievement in the short run and …

We exploit variation stemming from school consolidations in Denmark from 2010-2011 to analyze the impact on student … achievement as measured by test scores. For each student we observe enrollment and test scores one year prior to school … consolidation and up to four years after. We find that school consolidation has adverse effects on achievement in the short run and …

the calendar year they turn seven, which gives rise to a discontinuity in school starting age for children born around New …This paper uses register-based data to investigate the effects of school starting age on crime. Through this, we … provide insights into the determinants of crime-age profiles. We exploit that Danish children typically start first grade in …