emotionally sensitive children in the school-cohort. We exploit that some children move between schools and thus generate … variation in peer composition in the receiving school-cohort. We identify three groups of potentially disruptive and emotionally …

adolescence in compulsory education. Employing an empirical strategy that compares students born in December (young-for-grade) and … expands our understanding of the non-academic impacts of school entry age policies on education and adolescent development. …This paper investigates the impact of the school entry age policy on adolescent risk-taking behaviors. The policy …

We estimate the effect of school size on students' long-term outcomes such as high school completion, being out of the … estimators. We use the natural population variation in the residential catchment areas and school openings and closures to … instrument for actual school size. We find a robust positive but numerically fairly small relationship between school size and …

This paper analyzes how changes in school expenditures affect dropout rates and standardized test scores based on data … from 465 school districts in New York during the 2003/04 to the 2008/09 school years. Past traditional regression … approaches show inconsistent results of school expenditures because of an endogeneity problem. The regression discontinuity …

autonomous province of Trento) the PISA 2009 test was re-administered to the same students one year later. This paper is the … first to analyse in the OECD-PISA context the potential advantages of re-testing the same students in order to provide … better measures of schools' contributions to student achievement. We show that while cross-sectional measures of school value …

to three times larger among fourth and fifth graders in North Carolina than among kindergarten and first-grade students … both low-income students and English language learners, particularly for reading achievement. Also, in North Carolina …

Due to increased financial pressures following the Great Recession, a growing number of school districts have switched … from a traditional five-day school week to a four-day week schedule. While these shorter school weeks potentially help … reduce costs, this study considers the implications these school schedules have on student achievement. This study uses a …

-added school from among the set of feasible schools, then this reallocation of students would increase academic achievement …

immigrant students in the school. We propose a new identification strategy to partial out the unobserved non-random selection …We study the effect of exposure to immigrants on the educational outcomes of US-born students, using a unique dataset … combining population-level birth and school records from Florida. This research question is complicated by substantial school …

school on both students' learning and mothers' labor supply. we rely on unique application-to-primary-school data: first, we …This paper considers the case of Italy to analyze the short- and medium-term effect of a longer school day in primary … received by the school and from class size limits set by the law. We show that attending the FT scheme increases Math test …