of cognitive skills and supports the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that … instrumented by institutional features of school systems. Second, home-country cognitive-skill levels strongly affect the earnings …

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 …

. Under the public school system, the allocation of workforce depends more on talent and less on family background …

We show that, when school quality is measured by the educational standard and attaining the standard requires costly … relatively high cost of effort, who would find the high standards of the public school excessively demanding. With the key …

education, assuming that the institutional setup of the school system remains unchanged. -- Basic and college education ; skill …

enter (primary) school. Early age at school entry significantly affects mobility and reduces the relative advantage of …

This paper combines ten years of idiosyncratic variation in school closure dates for all secondary schools in England … the school schedule on the dynamics of youth crime. When school is not in session, students commit more property offences …

endogenous fertility and school choice. Household income heterogeneity is consistent with the skewness of empirical income … increases tax rates and public school enrollment, but decreases public spending per student in low income economies, while it …