share of children lacking important reading skills by socio-economic background. …

To the extent that school assignments/choices are endogenous, it is hard to conduct good experimental research on …

This paper estimates the effect of a full year of the COVID-19 pandemic on school performance, focusing on students at … the end of upper secondary school who are about to enter the labour market or start university without having had the … mathematics and reading (approximately 0.4 s.d. in both domains). Low-achieving pupils suffered the most, increasing the gap …

more than one school. Yet, little is known about the impact of multiple school jobs on teachers' productivity. This paper … one school. We use longitudinal data of students and teachers from the municipality of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, over a … period of 7 years and exploit within teacher-school-grade variation in the number of school jobs over time. We found …

(tracking and heterogeneous/bimodal groups) on student learning outcomes during middle school. Both strategies yielded an …

What is the effect of COVID-19 related school closures on student achievement? We provide causal evidence using … variation in the duration of school closures across and within Australian states. School closures ranged from 4 to 112 days. We … find no evidence of large declines on standardised test scores. The variation in test scores we observe post school …

We measure the effect of district use of federal pandemic relief during the 2022-23 school year for a sample of more …

This paper analyzes the impact of COVID-19 lockdown measures on children's school resilience. Using an individual fixed … school attendance after the lockdown was lifted. The results show that COVID-19 lockdown measures reduced children …'s probability of attending school after the school system reopened. This negative impact increased with children's age, reaching a …