This paper investigates the long-run consequences of a later school entry for personality traits. For identification …, we exploit the statutory cutoff rules for school enrollment in Germany within a regression discontinuity design. We find … that relatively older school starters have persistently lower levels of neuroticism in adulthood. This effect is entirely …

This paper studies a large-scale educational expansion to evaluate whether shocks to school inputs have an impact on … doubled enrollment in adult education, thus putting considerable strain on school inputs. Since the policy targeted … stronger negative shocks to peer quality and school resources such as teacher credentials and perpupil expenditure. Then, I …

, I use historical shifts in the school year schedule in Germany, which substantially shortened the duration of the … affected school years without adjusting the core curriculum. The loss of classroom instruction was mainly compensated for by …

-run outcomes up to age 27. We exploit exogenous variation in skills due to school entry rules, combining 20 years of Chilean … administrative records with a regression discontinuity design. Our results show higher in-school performance and college entrance …-income children. Our findings suggest that parental time investments are neutral to early skills gaps, while monetary investments are …

-student variation across subfields in natural science (i.e., physics, chemistry, biology, and Earth science). Using middle-school …

-service cognitive and pedagogical skills as measured by two state examinations and the high-school GPA on later effectiveness. I apply …

School closings displace thousands of teachers in the US every year. This paper explores how 3rd to 5th grade teachers … school closings in our study, we find that while most displaced teachers move to new schools in the same district, a … than white teachers. Although the primary goal of school closings is typically to move students out of declining or failing …