middle school faced the longest closures. A structural model of human capital accumulation predicts that the US school …

Germany. We specifically focus on the role of school and day care center closures, which may be regarded as a "disruptive …

the long-term effect of the Covid-19-related school closures on aggregate productivity through the human capital channel … school closure, respectively. These results appear to be broadly consistent with earlier findings in the literature. Two …

I exploit the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), which legalized millions of Hispanic migrants in the USA … sort out of public education and into private schooling. The IRCA differentially increases Hispanic school board members … and school expenditure, highlighting legal status as a driver of Hispanic human capital accumulation and representation. …

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 …

. Using regression discontinuity (RDD) methods, combined with dates on school year start and end dates by locality, we … document several notable results. First, mothers are substantially more affected by the school year than are fathers. When … school is in session, mothers sleep less, spend more time caring for family members and driving them around, and spend less …

In spring 2020, governments around the globe shut down schools to mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus. We … 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 …

alternative evolution of the pandemic, assuming that states extended the lockdown measures until daily new cases reach the levels … of European countries after their lockdown measures were relaxed. In the baseline simulation, we find that cases and …