Due to increased financial pressures following the Great Recession, a growing number of school districts have switched … from a traditional five-day school week to a four-day week schedule. While these shorter school weeks potentially help … reduce costs, this study considers the implications these school schedules have on student achievement. This study uses a …

In Germany and many other countries, students are tracked into various secondary school types. This paper studies …. The reform replaced parents choice about their children s secondary school type by a binding teacher recommendation. Our …

Children starting school at older ages consistently exhibit better educational outcomes. In this paper, we underscore … child development as a mechanism driving this effect. We study the causal effect of school starting age on a child …'s probability of developing special educational needs in early grades. We find that starting school at a relatively older age …

The previous literature has shown that children who enter school at a more advanced age outperform their younger … classmates on competency tests taken between kindergarten and Grade 10. This study analyzes whether these effects of school … of the long-term causal effects exploits state and year variation in school entry regulations. The results show that …

This paper investigates intra-family spillovers from the focal child's timing of school start. We first show how school … starting age affects the timing of subsequent educational transitions. Exploiting quasi-random variation in school starting age … at school start increases maternal employment with four percentage points; at child age 15, it increases the likelihood …

Being the youngest in a cohort entails many penalties. Using administrativedata of every public-school student in … Portugal, we show that although performancegains from being 1-year older fade quickly from primary education to high school …,age-related penalties persist through a combination of grade retention, educationaltracking and testing policies. Those that start school …

universal random assignment of students to high schools in certain areas of South Korea to provide estimates of school effects … that may better reflect the effects of school practices. We find significant effects of schools on scores in high …-stakes college entrance exams: a 1 standard deviation increase in school quality leads to 0.06-0.08 standard deviations higher …

-income, first-time mothers. A major goal of the program is to improve the participants’ economic self-sufficiency and family … previous studies from the United States, where home visiting programs successfully increased employment and decreased fertility … welfare state arrangements for disadvantaged mothers with young children in Germany. …

employment, school attendance, child care use, fertility, life-satisfaction and well-being. Biannual telephone interviews with …-time mothers and their families implemented in three German federal states. I analysis the impact of the intervention on maternal … the participating mothers until the third birthday of the child give a rich data source to evaluate these outcomes. I find …