This paper considers the role of school closures in the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. To isolate the impact of the … summer school and fall holiday across the 16 federal states in Germany. Leveraging a difference-in-differences design with …

This paper considers the role of school closures in the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. To isolate the impact of the … summer and fall school holidays across the 16 federal states in Germany using a differencein-differences design with … return to school at full capacity after the summer holidays increased infections among children or adults. Instead, we find …

middle school faced the longest closures. A structural model of human capital accumulation predicts that the US school …

We examine whether parental and school investments reinforce or compensate for student performance. Our analysis … exploits school-starting-age rules in 34 countries, capturing achievement variation that arises because younger children … typically underperform their older peers. Parents respond to lower performance by providing additional homework help, while …

Does after-school care provision promote mothers ́employment and balance the allocation of paid work among parents of … schoolchildren? We address this question by exploiting variation in cantonal (state) regulations of after-school care provision in … methods, we find a positive impact of after-school care provision on mothers ́full-time employment, but a negative impact on …