Due to increased financial pressures following the Great Recession, a growing number of school districts have switched … from a traditional five-day school week to a four-day week schedule. While these shorter school weeks potentially help … reduce costs, this study considers the implications these school schedules have on student achievement. This study uses a …

The previous literature has shown that children who enter school at a more advanced age outperform their younger … classmates on competency tests taken between kindergarten and Grade 10. This study analyzes whether these effects of school … of the long-term causal effects exploits state and year variation in school entry regulations. The results show that …

-term positive and economically meaningful effects on nonhealth outcomes such as education and cognitive skills. These effects are …

This study analyzes the factors associated to the school desertion in the City of Cartagena and two case studies … individual, socio-economic, academic and institutional characteristics of the students registered in the official sector as … incidence in the probability of school desertion. According to the results, academic factors explain in a greater proportion the …

Violence at schools is a well-known problem in many societies. This paper assesses the degree of school violence in 11 … the international TIMSS 2003 and the British longitudinal NCDS data. The level of school violence is high in most … countries but seems not to increase over time. Besides gender, social and migration background and the appearance of students …

School entry regulations lead to differences in the age when children start school. While previous literature estimated … the effects of age at school entry for compliers with school entry regulations, we look at non-compliers, namely those who … enter school one year before the official entry date. Based on an instrumental variable approach, the results show that …

School entry regulations lead to differences in the age when children start school. While previous literature estimated … the effects of age at school entry for compliers with school entry regulations, we look at non-compliers, namely those who … enter school one year before the official entry date. Based on an instrumental variable approach, the results show that …

Previous evidence has shown disparate achievement impacts of the four-day school week across state contexts. This paper … examines the impacts of the four-day school week on achievement and achievement gaps across 12 states to contextualize these … four-day school week impacts nationally. We estimate these effects using a difference-in-differences design with data from …

the academic track in secondary school less often. (4) Younger children are more frequently diagnosed with learning …The existence of a rigid cutoff date which determines when children start primary school creates a large heterogeneity … in students' level of maturity within the classroom. We use rich administrative data of the universe of public schools in …

qualifications on students’ belief in the importance of effort for academic achievement. Our findings uncover various family …