Taking advantage of temporal and geographical variations in the timing of school holidays in Germany, this paper finds … that school holidays cause an 19 percent (0.03 percentage points) decrease in the probability of youth suicide. This effect … find evidence of a spike in suicide propensity in the first two days following the end of school holidays. The results are …

disadvantaged backgrounds, and children spending the entire day at school; they do not depend on the choice of the reference group …Using census data on three cohorts of 5th grade Italian students we investigate how the ordinal rank in the within-school … age distribution affects the probability of being bullied. Identification is achieved by exploiting within-school between …

, class size reduction improves the quality of life for children by mitigating the bullying and violent behavior among pupils … mechanism through which class size affects children's self-reported bullying-victim instances and violent behavior. … administrative and survey data to investigate the effects of class size on students' cognitive tests as well as bullying and violent …

depression, isolation, victimization from bullying and attitudes towards violence at school; and lower verbal and math test … violence exposure over the academic attainment of secondary school students in Peru. However, we also study these peer effects … over a novel set of outcomes: internalizing behaviors and forms of violence at school. Our results show that being in a …

Mathematics and Science Study (2007-TIMSS), we investigate the impact of being a victim of school bullying on educational … suggest that being a victim of school bullying has a considerable negative effect on student performance at both the fourth … for a number of individual characteristics and school fixed effects. Secondly, in order to attenuate the impact of …