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 …

This paper considers the influence of spatial competition on education and its effect on students' school choice and … school is a function of teacher effort and class size. Students decide which school to attend on the basis of an assessment … equilibrium resource spending and school diversity as well as the level and distribution of student attainment and welfare. The …

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 …