Expanding parental choice in education may increase system-wide productivity if parents select schools that form a … specifically good match with their children. I investigate the effect of attending a preferred school on student achievement in … assignment which awards school offer based on admission priority, residential distance, and parental preference. I compare …

We consider the role played by school leaders in improving pupil attainment, going beyond previous studies by exploring … below headship level are associated, at least to some extent, with improved school performance in Single Academy Trusts, but …

that school holidays have a beneficial impact on the well-being of students and that suicide prevention efforts are …Taking advantage of temporal and geographical variations in the timing of school holidays in Germany, this paper finds … that school holidays cause an 19 percent (0.03 percentage points) decrease in the probability of youth suicide. This effect …

one school. We use longitudinal data of students and teachers from the municipality of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, over a … more than one school. Yet, little is known about the impact of multiple school jobs on teachers' productivity. This paper … sheds some light on this issue by examining whether students' outcomes are affected when their teachers work in more than …

to middle grades, to study the effects of school-based supplementary nutrition on students' cognitive effort in the … cognitive performance of students by 13% to 16%. This result is robust to unobserved heterogeneity in school quality and student …Hunger and malnourishment can adversely affect students' performance by lowering their effort and cognition during …

Using census data on three cohorts of 5th grade Italian students we investigate how the ordinal rank in the within-school … age distribution affects the probability of being bullied. Identification is achieved by exploiting within-school between …-cohort variation in the age composition of different school cohorts, and through an IV strategy based on the discontinuity in the …

We examine the effects of date of birth on state selective education using the 1944 Education Act in England and Wales … as a natural experiment. We compare the probabilities of gaining selective school entry - which in our study period meant … attending a grammar school - before and after the Act using a difference-in-difference approach. Before 1944, grammar school …

Instruction time varies among schools, subjects, pupils and grades. This variation is positively associated with test … administrative data on delivered and timetabled instruction time in each grade throughout compulsory school for three full cohorts of …

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

of 0.03 standard deviations in students' test scores across all countries. Importantly, these effects of instruction time … are significantly larger for students with better qualified teachers, resulting in an increase in test scores of 0.04 to 0 …