effort that pupils invest in education. Getting discounted grades in year 6 for a given level of math performance assessed … elementary education. The data for three entire school cohorts is analyzed - approximately 140,000 individuals. …This paper argues that school grades cannot be interpreted solely as a reward for a given school performance, since …

school starting age. We show that estimating the effect of kindergarten or school enrolment timing on later human capital … results. The instruments originate from exogenous birthdate-related enrolment cutoffs in kindergarten and school admissions …. Using a rich Hungarian database, we show that both earlier kindergarten enrolment and later school enrolment have a …

that reorganised Swedish middle school education. The reorganisation induced pupils to remain in small local schools … education production function, we find no evidence that remaining in a small local school and avoiding a transition to a large … which shows that Swedish pupils do not perceive large differences in the school environment between schools of different …

the impact of the Catholic Relief Services (CRS) school feeding programme on pupils' attendance and girls' enrolment rate …Food for Education (FFE) programmes have been implemented in developing countries since the 1960s. This paper examines … Beoog Biiga programme, we find that take-home rations (THRs) increased school attendance for both boys and girls. Moreover …

differences in achievement between students with highly varying start times versus students with consistent schedules. Moreover …, we find much smaller gains to delayed school start times compared to previous studies. …

Children starting school at older ages consistently exhibit better educational outcomes. In this paper, we underscore … child development as a mechanism driving this effect. We study the causal effect of school starting age on a child …'s probability of developing special educational needs in early grades. We find that starting school at a relatively older age …

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. …

that these effects are most pronounced for students exposed to school closings. Furthermore, students initially enrolled in …We exploit variation stemming from school consolidations in Denmark from 2010- 2011 to analyze the impact on student … achievement as measured by test scores. For each student we observe enrollment and test scores one year prior to school …

that these effects are most pronounced for students exposed to school closings. Furthermore, students initially enrolled in …We exploit variation stemming from school consolidations in Denmark from 2010-2011 to analyze the impact on student … achievement as measured by test scores. For each student we observe enrollment and test scores one year prior to school …