Due to increased financial pressures following the Great Recession, a growing number of school districts have switched … from a traditional five-day school week to a four-day week schedule. While these shorter school weeks potentially help … reduce costs, this study considers the implications these school schedules have on student achievement. This study uses a …

This study finds that approaching 10% of the variation in high school student achievement is explained by teacher …

emotionally sensitive children in the school-cohort. We exploit that some children move between schools and thus generate … variation in peer composition in the receiving school-cohort. We identify three groups of potentially disruptive and emotionally …

universal random assignment of students to high schools in certain areas of South Korea to provide estimates of school effects … that may better reflect the effects of school practices. We find significant effects of schools on scores in high …-stakes college entrance exams: a 1 standard deviation increase in school quality leads to 0.06-0.08 standard deviations higher …

This paper argues that school grades cannot be interpreted solely as a reward for a given school performance, since … they also reflect teachers' ratings of pupils. Grades therefore contain valuable information about pupils' own - usually … effort that pupils invest in education. Getting discounted grades in year 6 for a given level of math performance assessed …

specifically good match with their children. I investigate the effect of attending a preferred school on student achievement in … assignment which awards school offer based on admission priority, residential distance, and parental preference. I compare … school of choice increases student achievement compared to an institution with lower parental preference but same value …

This paper analyzes the impact of longer school schedules on children's 2nd grade reading comprehension skills in Chile … choose full-day schools, and after controlling for selection, longer school schedules lead to an increase of 0.14 standard …) and urban schools, and among girls. We also find that the benefits of longer school days accumulate over time. …