argue that low-achieving students may be particularly affected by the lack of educator support during school closures. We … collect detailed time-use information on students before and during the school closures in a survey of 1,099 parents in … Germany. We find that while students on average reduced their daily learning time of 7.4 hours by about half, the reduction …

This paper provides evidence of the effect of age at school entry on college admission. We do so by exploiting a number … different ages at school entry depending on whether they are born on December 31st or on January 1st, our estimates show that … further suggest that the difference in the likelihood of admission is driven by candidates’ learning ability at primary school …

universal random assignment of students to high schools in certain areas of South Korea to provide estimates of school effects … estimates, while causal, may also reflect peer effects due to differences in peer quality of non-randomized students. We exploit … that may better reflect the effects of school practices. We find significant effects of schools on scores in high …

, structuring of school classes and educational achievement in secondary school. For educational attainment, there was an increase … in achievement at the end of elementary school and greater equality of achievement at the transition without an increase … in social inequality. The structuring of school classes showed a decoupling of cognitive and social segregation. And for …

If students tend to choose instructors with high teaching ability, a negative link between class size and student …

mathematics and reading test scores, more so for non-LEP students than for LEP students. The overall language mix of LEP students … has little if any discernable relationship with achievement. For LEP students, having more LEP peers speak their mother …