feedback effect black school enrollment increased in states that had previously experienced high rates of black out … because schooling lowered the costs of migrating, possibly by increasing awareness of distant labor market opportunities and …

This paper examines the effects of increasing the compulsory school leaving (CSL) age from 16 to 18 in Hungary using a … of elementary school in 1998. Identification is based on compliance with the age of elementary school start rule …. Compliance with the age rule creates a discontinuity in the probability of starting school under the higher CSL age regime around …

When children start school, parents save time and/or money. In this paper, we empirically examine the impact of these … Netherlands, where children start school (kindergarten) for approximately 20 hours a week in the month that they turn 4. Using … child starts going to school. For their partners, who experience a much smaller shock in terms of time, the increase in …

Improving the nutritional content of public school meals is a topic of intense policy interest. A main motivation is … the health of school children, and, in particular, the rising childhood obesity rate. Medical and nutrition literature has … takes advantage of frequent lunch vendor contract turnover. Students at schools that contract with a healthy school lunch …

We examine whether parental and school investments reinforce or compensate for student performance. Our analysis … exploits school-starting-age rules in 34 countries, capturing achievement variation that arises because younger children … school investments are substitutes. …

/16 years across 13 European countries. Both instrumental variables and school fixed effects are used for identification …. Omitting school fixed effects, as in some existing IV studies of peer effects, is shown to lead to substantial overestimates …

We examine the differences in an index of standardized test performance of urban private/public school seniors by race … exogenous variables to control for individual traits, family background, etc., we treat both student performance and school … choice as jointly endogenous in the context of a simultaneous equations model with a latent variable: school choice. We find …

This paper investigates the impact of instructional days on student performance. Because school year length is … endogenously determined, I estimate the causal impact of school year length through two quasi-experiments that exploit different … sources of variation in instructional days. The fi rst approach identifies school year length 's effect through weather …

This paper estimates the effects of extending the school day during elementary school on students' education outcomes … extended the school day from 4.5 to 8 hours in schools that adopted the program. We exploit cohort-by-cohort variation in … students' full-time school enrollment during elementary school to identify the longer-term effects on their performance in a …