This study examines the impact of primary-school closures during the 1918 Pandemic in Sweden on mortality and long …-term outcomes of school children. Using the universe of death certificates from 1914-1920 and newly-collected data on school … schools closed in response to local surges in influenza deaths. Faster implementation of school closures significantly reduced …

market outcomes and historical school census data, and we exploit changes in the availability and size of public and private … in a private high school on wages after college graduation, and we discuss alternative mechanisms that can explain this …

This paper examines whether additional time in elementary and secondary school affects economic well-being in adulthood …. This paper explores a large-scale reform that increased the Chilean school day by 30 percent between 1997 and 2010, with … access to longer school days varying by cohort and city. Both sources of variation are leveraged and it is found that full …

A school finance equalization program established in Mississippi in 1920 failed to help many of the state's Black … students - an outcome that was typical in the segregated U.S. South (Horace Mann Bond, 1934). In majority-Black school … Black schools, those in majority-Black districts continued to experience extremely low - and even worsening - school funding …