Student absences are a potentially important, yet understudied, input in the educational process. Using longitudinal data from a nationally-representative survey and rich administrative records from North Carolina, we investigate the relationship between student absences and academic...

We investigate to what extent crowd support contributes to the home advantage in soccer, disentangling this effect from other mechanisms such as players' familiarity with the stadium and travel fatigue. To evaluate the relevance of crowd support in determining home advantage we analyze...

Das Angebot an Plätzen in Kindertageseinrichtungen (Kitas) wurde in den vergangenen zehn Jahren massiv ausgebaut. Seit 2013 gilt der Rechtsanspruch auf einen Betreuungsplatz für Kinder ab dem zweiten Lebensjahr. Damit war teilweise auch die Hoffnung verbunden, dass der sozioökonomische...

Obwohl der Anteil von Kindern unter drei Jahren in der Kindertagesbetreuung in den letzten Jahren stark gestiegen ist, bestehen immer noch große Unterschiede in der Inanspruchnahme von Kita-Plätzen: Haben Mütter eine geringere Bildung oder beide Eltern einen Migrationshintergrund, dann...

The Covid-19 pandemic has induced worldwide natural experiments on the effects of crowds. We exploit one of these experiments currently taking place over several countries in almost identical settings: professional football matches played behind closed doors. We find large and statistically...

Because no-show behavior typically leads to operational inefficiencies and thus diminishing returns for service firms, a growing number of authors have demonstrated the potential of using reminders to reduce no-show rates. In this study, by examining the behavioral responses of 13,911 season...