Taking advantage of temporal and geographical variations in the timing of school holidays in Germany, this paper finds … that school holidays cause an 19 percent (0.03 percentage points) decrease in the probability of youth suicide. This effect … find evidence of a spike in suicide propensity in the first two days following the end of school holidays. The results are …

public school system. In 2004, the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) signed a new collective … bargaining agreement that gave principals the flexibility to dismiss probationary teachers (defined as those with less than five …, urban school districts. Results suggest that the policy reduced annual teacher absences by roughly 10 percent and reduced …