by uncovering otherwise undetected (asymptomatic) cases. Case numbers in school-aged children spike in the first week …We use event-study models based on staggered summer vacations in Germany to estimate the effect of school re … decrease after school re-openings, arguably as a result of detected clusters through the school testing. The age group 60 …

This paper studies the effect of the end of school summer breaks on SARS-CoV-2 cases in Germany. We exploit variation … specifications, sub-group analyses and robustness checks, we do not find any evidence of a positive effect of school re-openings on …,000 inhabitants or 27 percent of a standard deviation. Our results are not explained by changes in mobility patterns around school re …

This paper estimates the effect of a full year of the COVID-19 pandemic on school performance, focusing on students at … the end of upper secondary school who are about to enter the labour market or start university without having had the …

proportion of children studying in a school with a principal by 0.1, and increased the number of teachers in a village by 0.7. I …I study the impact of school consolidation on enrolment and achievement, using its staggered roll-out in the Indian … also find that consolidation increased school enrolment in a village by 2 per cent- in particular, girls' enrolment …

A significant proportion of migrant children in China are not able to attend public schools for lack of local household … involuntary school choice, using survey data and standardized test scores from field work conducted in Shanghai. We find that … in both Chinese and Mathematics. We also use parental satisfaction and parental assessment of school quality as …

The positive effects of early childhood programs on children's school success have been demonstrated in the literature …. In this study we examine the relationship between Kindergarten attendance and the 7th grade school placement of children … citizens and children's later school placement. However, for children in immigrant households the reverse is true: later school …

mathematics among early primary school children in Norway, a low testing environment. We examine two forms of testing, complex but …How much young children should be tested and graded is a highly contentious issue in education policy. Opponents … redeeming impact on educational performance. Others see early testing of children as a necessary instrument for identifying …