The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the learning process of more than 1.5 billion students and youth around the world. The … learning losses attributable to the school restrictions in response to the pandemic. The literature discussing the efficacy of …-related school restrictions, learning loss and education policy development. Cases from Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium …

We estimate the impact of a large curriculum reform in Switzerland that substantially increased the share of foreign … language classes in compulsory school on students' subsequent educational choices in upper secondary school. Using … administrative student register data and exploiting the staggered implementation of the curriculum reform, we find that exposure to …

We estimate the impact of a large curriculum reform in Switzerland that substantially increased the share of foreign … language classes in compulsory school on students' subsequent educational choices in upper secondary school. Using … administrative student register data and exploiting the staggered implementation of the curriculum reform, we find that exposure to …

We examine the effects of a compulsory schooling reform on child labor in Turkey, which extended the duration of … Surveys with a very rich set of outcomes. The reform reduces child labor by 4.8 percentage points (28 percent) for 12- to 17 … hours on household chores also reduces. We find that school enrollment and child labor are highly substitutable in rural …

improve educational outcomes. Ten years ago, only a few school districts around the country used formal strategies to … integrate their schools along class lines. Today, over eighty school districts around the United States, together educating … variety of voluntary integration programs. The message of The Future of School Integration: Socioeconomic Diversity as an …

School accountability is one of the most controversial recent reforms taking place in education systems around the … world, but evidence of whether and which accountability practices affect equity and performance in academic achievement has … that, under higher levels of accountability, higher school autonomy on curriculum management and assessment could render …