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 exploit the randomized evaluation of a remedying education intervention that improved the reading skills of low …-performing third grade students in Colombia, to study whether providing educational support to low-achieving students affects the …-form effect on higher-achieving students as a spillover effect within treated schools. We then estimate a linear-in-means model of …

We exploit the randomized evaluation of a remedying education intervention that improved the reading skills of low …-performing third grade students in Colombia, to study whether providing educational support to low-achieving students affects the …-form effect on higher-achieving students as a spillover effect within treated schools. We then estimate a linear-in-means model of …

This paper explores the influence of socio-economic status on the education performance of male and female students in … key terms such as education, socio-economic status, and international student assessments, emphasizing the significance of … reading, the results indicate that parents' education and possession of cultural goods significantly impact student …

used by the Ministry of Education in 2021 to establish a “stoplight” system for in-person instruction. Using administrative … panel data for all students in Guatemala, the study employs a difference-in-differences strategy that leverages municipal … differences over time in the warning index to estimate the effects of the pandemic on dropout, promotion, and school switching …

language classes in compulsory school on students’ subsequent educational choices in upper secondary school. Using … education. The effect of foreign language classes on the educational trajectory of low-track male students is particularly … pronounced for students who do not speak at home the school’s language of instruction. Finally, we find that female students who …

take advantage of three rounds of a nationally representative household survey on education and functional literacy … students in grades 4-10 students. The three rounds enable us to examine trends in these skills from the turn of the millennium … to 2019. We find that a significant proportion of higher-grade students have not yet mastered these foundational skills …

the program schools, which may have diluted the program effect for incoming students in upper grades. Schools with school …A school improvement program that provided support to poor-performing schools on the basis of needs identified in a … school improvement plan was implemented in 72 government schools in Jamaica,from 1998 to 2005. In this independent evaluation …

tongue-based multilingual education could effectively improve learning outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. However … also find evidence that learning outcomes are higher in countries with a monolingual education policy after controlling for …, the challenges of implementing an effective multilingual education could prove prohibitive in countries with a high …

This paper proposes a theory of education curriculum and analyzes its distributional impact on student learning … outcomes. Different curricula represent horizontal differentiation in the education technology, thus a curriculum change has … distributional effects across students. We test the model using the quasi-natural experiment of the G8 reform in Germany. We find …