three basic questions, as well as examining students' race/ethnicity and poverty status, summer learning loss to determine … closed its doors to students from mid-March 2020 to June 2021. During this time, instruction transitioned from face …-to-face to virtual, with students having three options for virtual instruction. In addition to individual KPS student data, the …

increased student learning; after 1 year, Grade 2 students' mathematics and reading scores increased by 0.106 and 0.075 standard … teachers' pedagogical skills and student learning. Previous studies find that small‐scale coaching programs can improve … schools in years 2 and 3. Following our framework, we estimate that the impacts on students of having a "fully" coached …

Though the use of tracking policies to stratify students is commonplace, evi- dence concerning the effects of ability …-based tracking on student performance is mixed. Using rich data from the Hungarian secondary school centralized assignment mechanism …

that small increases in shared computer access, one more computer per 40 students, can produce large increases in digital …

There is a perception among native born parents in the USA that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools … suggests negative though negligible peer effects of Limited English (LE) students and black students on the achievement of … other students, potential peer effects of students from Latin America in general have not been considered. In this paper, we …

This dissertation consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of the economics of education … achievement across and within countries. Chapter 3 hereby employs novel machine-learning methods to derive intertemporal … preference measures from Facebook data. Using a field experiment among university students, chapter 4 shows that the ordering in …

concerning the allocation of students to classes in order to foster immigrant students' integration and learning. …Using longitudinal data from the Italian National Institute for the Evaluation of the Education System (INVALSI), this … paper investigates whether the ability of classmates affects the educational attainment of immigrant students. We focus not …

This paper analyzes the impact of COVID-19 lockdown measures on children's school resilience. Using an individual fixed … school attendance after the lockdown was lifted. The results show that COVID-19 lockdown measures reduced children …'s probability of attending school after the school system reopened. This negative impact increased with children's age, reaching a …