return to school at full capacity after the summer holidays increased infections among children or adults. Instead, we find …This paper considers the role of school closures in the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. To isolate the impact of the … summer and fall school holidays across the 16 federal states in Germany using a differencein-differences design with …

Since 2011, Korean students above the poverty line have been eligible for free school meals. The authors of this paper … hypothesize that increased homogeneity of eligibility reduces peer conflicts and school violence. Data from 5,853 schools in Korea …

This paper investigates the potential impact of extended school days in reducing teenage fertility. We study the … Jornada Escolar Extendida program, which doubled the school-day length from 4 to 8 hours in the Dominican Republic, and … municipality. The estimates are robust to various specifications and alternative checks. These results suggest that extended school …

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 …