degree completion and reduce dropout in higher education, but not in high school. We argue that the higher prevalence of …

language classes in compulsory school on students' subsequent educational choices in upper secondary school. Using … more foreign language classes during compulsory school has only minor effects on educational choices of the overall student … pronounced for students who do not speak at home the school's language of instruction. Finally, we find that female students who …

better nutritional intake at school and at home. Gains in beneciary children's cognitive development were observed 4 years …

early and late school years are the most decisive for cognitive skill development. Exploiting unique survey data on the use …

, that makes lecture videos and other teaching resources from an elite urban middle school available through the internet to … math by 0.978 standard deviations over the three-year middle school education, of which 0.343 standard deviations are …

This paper estimates the effect of a full year of the COVID-19 pandemic on school performance, focusing on students at … the end of upper secondary school who are about to enter the labour market or start university without having had the …

In this paper, we examine the wage returns to an extra year of primary school using a policy reform in Egypt, which … reduced compulsory primary schooling from 6 to 5 years. Since this policy changed the duration of primary school while … wage returns to an extra year of primary school for Egyptian men aged 24–44 is a statistically insignificant 2–4 percent …

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 …