). Our focus is on children's school attendance, which is a precise, high-frequency measure of community functionality and a …, but is larger for secondary school students and students with a tendency to attend school regularly. Exploring the … reduction in school attendance that we observe …

This study finds that approaching 10% of the variation in high school student achievement is explained by teacher … effects in Australia. It uses data from the 2011 Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) sample of Australian Year 8 …

to withdraw support when attendance does not improve. Australia's School Enrollment and Attendance through Welfare Reform …Efforts to enforce compulsory schooling by linking welfare assistance to school attendance are rarely successful in … the troubled history of race relations in Australia. We show, using a difference-in-difference analysis of standardized …

, largely due to the fact that students significantly outnumber teachers. Data from North Carolina, Wisconsin, Australia …, England, and Israel covering almost 80 million person-days in school help assess the magnitude of the fatality risks of in …

regulations governing school closure in Australia, which is supplemented with an historical case study. The study finds that … Ministerial discretion is the sole mechanism of school closure. It is proposed that this method of analysis is capable of being …