Recent research exploits a variety of natural experiments that create exogenous variation in annual school days to … number of school days between kindergarten students' fall and spring tests in the nationally representative Early Childhood … Longitudinal Study – Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS-K). The marginal effect of a typical 250-day school-year on kindergarten students …

school proximity effects on nearby residential housing. Prior research supports the existence of a "school proximity premium … for a "school proximity penalty," for public elementary schools suggesting that proximity is perceived to be a net …