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 …

for grade 9 students. These students were particularly vulnerable to dropping out of school prematurely due to the crisis …. We find that most students kept studying during the crisis, returned to school to participate in the lower …-secondary graduation exam after schools reopened, and transitioned to high school thereafter. However, we also find that students' exposure …

This paper studies the impact of compulsory schooling on in-school violence using individual-level administrative data … indicate that in-school violence increases. Effects concentrate among students with prior criminal records and their classmates …, with greater exposure to in-school violence leading to increased criminality at older ages. Dropout age reforms may alter …

2002, we find that student achievement at the end of compulsory school is the main predictor of dropout and delayed … controlling for a full set of school fixed effects. -- high school dropout ; socioeconomic gradient ; student achievement …

Hierarchical and comprehensive school systems are compared with respect to efficiency. At given ability, a student …?s probability of not completing school rises with increasing mean ability in class. Both school systems can yield identical average … failure rates. Given that output losses in case of failure are stronger for more talented students, the comprehensive school …

by boundaries. Here, we use changes in school boundaries and the opening of a new school to identify this capitalization …

administrative to instructional spending and larger class sizes were observed, supporting the hypothesis of a Leviathan-like school … administration. For Switzerland, using a cross-sectional time-series panel of sub-federal school expenditure and size of classes, no …

This paper identifies which investments in school facilities help students and are valued by homeowners. Using novel … data on school district bonds, test scores, and house prices for 29 U.S. states and a research design that exploits close … elections with staggered timing, we show that increased school capital spending raises test scores and house prices on average …