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 …

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

This paper analyzes the impact of longer school schedules on children's 2nd grade reading comprehension skills in Chile … choose full-day schools, and after controlling for selection, longer school schedules lead to an increase of 0.14 standard …) and urban schools, and among girls. We also find that the benefits of longer school days accumulate over time …

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 …

In this paper, we study how high school students reacted to the shocking news of a school shooting. The shooting … coincided with national high-school matriculation exams. As there were exams both before and after the shooting, we can perform … a difference-in-differences analysis to uncover how the school shooting affected the test scores compared to previous …

features a long school day, an extended school year, selective teacher hiring, strict behavior norms, and a focus on … impact of KIPP Academy Lynn, a KIPP school in Lynn, Massachusetts that typifies the KIPP approach. Our analysis focuses on …

In our current challenging budgetary environment, school closures remain a potentially attractive choice. With a large … panel of Illinois schools from 1991 to 2005, I investigate which factors contribute to school closures. Among elementary …. Administrators may claim that low enrolments and high spending motivate school closures, but in Illinois, that is not the whole story …