candidates in the School, we exploit a policy change aimed at reducing class size to implement a regression discontinuity design …

conditions of primary school teachers, matching them by the year they entered the profession.After showing that teacher …

during elementary school, but only among the low SES children. Consequently, the high PGS children experience the largest … achievement growth over the school years, even if they are born in socioeconomic disadvantage. While the SES gaps are partly due …

pupils, between 2007 and 2012. The identification strategy is based on the fact that for this school Fe y Alegría conducted a … estimates the effect of one Fe y Alegria school in Peru on mathematics and reading comprehension among second grade primary … lottery to determine which students would be accepted onto first grade. We could prepare our estimates only for one school …

We know surprisingly little about the influence of race-blind school admissions on student outcomes. This paper studies … a unique reform where a large, urban school district was federally mandated to adopt a race-blind lottery system to fill …-blind lotteries dramatically segregated subsequent magnet school cohorts.I show that race-blind admissions caused the more segregated …

We study the effect of school closures and the transition from on-site to on-line teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic … in the Finnish upper secondary schools. To identify the effects we exploit variation in the length of school closure …-secondary education than the students who experienced shorter school closures. Moreover, we show that inequalities across Finnish students …

The effect of school closures in the spring of 2020 on the math, science, and reading skills of secondary school … students in Poland is estimated. The COVID-19-induced school closures lasted 26 weeks in Poland, one of Europe's longest …