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 …

depression, isolation, victimization from bullying and attitudes towards violence at school; and lower verbal and math test … violence exposure over the academic attainment of secondary school students in Peru. However, we also study these peer effects … over a novel set of outcomes: internalizing behaviors and forms of violence at school. Our results show that being in a …

This study examines the impact of school choice on academic achievement. I use differences in the number of schools … across similar Romanian towns, generating variation in school choice for local students, who compete for seats via test … scores. I find that more school choice results in increased sorting of students by admission scores across different schools …

This study examines the impact of school choice on academic achievement. I use differences in the number of schools … across similar Romanian towns, generating variation in school choice for local students, who compete for seats via test … scores. I find that more school choice results in increased sorting of students by admission scores across different schools …