Children starting school at older ages consistently exhibit better educational outcomes. In this paper, we underscore … relatively younger children to special needs services. The effect is persistent throughout compulsory schooling, resulting in …

investigate the mechanisms behind this relationship using data on German pre-teen students. We show that (i) taller children are … better recommendations to taller students. This holds even when controlling for academic achievement and parental background … respect to education policy, our findings suggest that early school tracking might increase disadvantages for students with …

Does after-school care provision promote mothers’ employment and balance the allocation of paid work among parents of …

in higher education. We investigate students' knowledge and their receptiveness to information campaigns about the costs … financial barriers to university participation, especially for students from disadvantaged backgrounds …

System in several hundred schools and a two-stage experiment to study the adoption of this technology by parents, I find: A … quarter of parents ever use it; adoption follows an S-shape; significant spillovers occur along intensive but not extensive …

that these effects are most pronounced for students exposed to school closings. Furthermore, students initially enrolled in …

overall null effects. Effects are larger for high-SES students and mostly confined to developed countries …