We exploit variation stemming from school consolidations in Denmark from 2010-2011 to analyze the impact on student … achievement as measured by test scores. For each student we observe enrollment and test scores one year prior to school … consolidation and up to four years after. We find that school consolidation has adverse effects on achievement in the short run and …

admission reform that led to the exogenous reshuffling of pupils. The results indicate that a 10-percentile-point increase in … mostly to direct measures of student ability (grades from compulsory school) rather than to other correlated characteristics …

This paper studies the effect of longer school days - induced by voluntary all-day programs in German primary schools … - on school performance. We combine data from the National Educational Panel Study covering 5771 primary school students … with municipality-level information on all-day school investments. Facing the challenge of selection into all-day school …

identification, I use historical shifts in the school year schedule in Germany, which substantially shortened the duration of the … affected school years with no adjustments in the core curriculum. The lost in-school instruction was mainly compensated for by …

Using a rich dataset that merges student-level school records with birth records, and leveraging a student fixed … effects design, we explore how the massive scale-up of a Florida private school choice program affected public school students … suspension rates) attending public schools closer to more pre-program private school options. Effects are particularly pronounced …

-run schools, affect student achievement and school segregation across 15 countries over 16 years. Our triple …

all due to differences in what students bring with them to school - socio-economic background, cultural factors, and the … like? Or do school systems make a difference? This essay argues that differences in features of countries' school systems … factors of the school system, as well as factors beyond the school system, account for cross-country achievement differences …

This paper studies a school district that was federally mandated to adopt a race-blind lottery system to fill seats in … lotteries by race to offset its predominantly black applicant pools. The change dramatically segregated subsequent magnet school …

Does relaxing strict school discipline improve student achievement, or lead to classroom disorder? We study a 2012 … are associated with improvements in school culture, as measured by the quality of student-teacher relationships and … perceptions of safety at school. We find no evidence of trade-offs between students, with students benefiting even if they were …