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 …

across similar Romanian towns, generating variation in school choice for local students, who compete for seats via test … scores. I find that more school choice results in increased sorting of students by admission scores across different schools …This study examines the impact of school choice on academic achievement. I use differences in the number of schools …

across similar Romanian towns, generating variation in school choice for local students, who compete for seats via test … scores. I find that more school choice results in increased sorting of students by admission scores across different schools …This study examines the impact of school choice on academic achievement. I use differences in the number of schools …

to School Survey (ATSS) administered to students and its School Staff Survey (SSS) — can improve predictions of … government school performance reflected in students Australian Tertiary Admissions Ranks (ATARs), beyond predictions based on … reflect, wholly or in part, the more positive attitudes to school of successful students and their teachers, collinearity …

relation between class size and grit. Using data from follow-up surveys of Project STAR, we show that fourth-grade pupils who … effects of grit are far-reaching: students with higher grit have better grades at the end of compulsory schooling, are more … likely to graduate from high school on time and are more likely to take a college entrance exam …

This paper studies the impact of a lottery-based desegregation program that allows minority students to transfer to … seven school districts serving higher-income, predominantly-white families. While prior research has studied the impacts of … such a program receiving students, this paper studies the effects on participating students. In the short run, students who …

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 …

In Germany and many other countries, students are tracked into various secondary school types. This paper studies … whether parents or teachers assess students potential educational performance more adequately. Educational attainment is …. The reform replaced parents choice about their children s secondary school type by a binding teacher recommendation. Our …

to three times larger among fourth and fifth graders in North Carolina than among kindergarten and first-grade students … both low-income students and English language learners, particularly for reading achievement. Also, in North Carolina …

immigrant students in the school. We propose a new identification strategy to partial out the unobserved non-random selection …We study the effect of exposure to immigrants on the educational outcomes of US-born students, using a unique dataset … combining population-level birth and school records from Florida. This research question is complicated by substantial school …