to withdraw support when attendance does not improve. Australia's School Enrollment and Attendance through Welfare Reform …Efforts to enforce compulsory schooling by linking welfare assistance to school attendance are rarely successful in … the troubled history of race relations in Australia. We show, using a difference-in-difference analysis of standardized …

). Our focus is on children's school attendance, which is a precise, high-frequency measure of community functionality and a …, but is larger for secondary school students and students with a tendency to attend school regularly. Exploring the … reduction in school attendance that we observe …

employ Queensland Department of Education school administration panel data for the population of state school students for … discontinuity design (RDD) based on administrative rules on age of school enrolment. The class assigning mechanism operates via a … postponed the school starting age by 6 months and produced a large increase in the compliance rate. This enables one to gauge …

We explore responses of Australian school principals to the introduction of test score reporting via the My School …) the My School website launch. We find scarce evidence of meaningful adjustments over time, but we do find evidence of … significantly different policies and practices across school groups. …

mental health is scant. We study how an important classroom feature - the gender composition in compulsory-school - affects …