This paper models the probability of 15-year-old children missing school or being late. The paper sets out to uncover … poor attendance. However their experience of -or attitude- to school has significant effects as has class size, which is …

school and which competences can be acquired better in the workplace. Exploiting data from a survey among professional … suitable to be taught in school. However, the results further suggest that soft skills can be acquired more effectively in the … workplace than at school. The only exceptions are analytical thinking, joy of learning and organizational competences, for which …

municipality expenditure and municipality expenditure on upper secondary school are explored using non-linear fixed effect models …

in school quality and positive sorting between households and schools are, together, no less important. The analysis also … education in East Africa requires policies that go beyond raising average school quality and should attend to the distribution … of school quality as well as assortative matching between households and schools. …

clubs/teams/activities, skipping school, getting into fights, damaging property, stealing, hurting others, smoking, using … not in school as potential mediators. We find that: (1) Welfare reform had no favorable effects on any of the youth … skipping school, damaging property, and getting into fights among boys. (4) Welfare reform led to increases in smoking and drug …