National School Lunch Program (NSLP) to include stricter nutritional requirements. We use data on school lunch menus to … document improvements in the nutritional quality of school meals between 1991 and 2010. We then evaluate how this change in … participation in the school lunch program leads to weight gain, as measured by changes in obesity, overweight, and BMI. These …

We measure the effect of district use of federal pandemic relief during the 2022-23 school year for a sample of more …

-secondary education than the students who experienced shorter school closures. Moreover, we show that inequalities across Finnish students …We study the effect of school closures and the transition from on-site to on-line teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic … in the Finnish upper secondary schools. To identify the effects we exploit variation in the length of school closure …

government-run schools - on student achievement and school segregation, using data from 15 countries over 16 years. Our triple …-differences regressions exploit between-grade variation in the share of students attending autonomous schools within a given country and year … heterogeneity, with consistently positive effects for high-socioeconomic-status students and natives, and negative effects for low …

education. Using administrative data from Italian middle schools for four cohorts of students, our study reveals that disrupting … peer interactions during the first year of middle school - when students are still unfamiliar with one another …We leverage the timing of pandemic-induced school closures to learn about the emergence of ordinal rank effects in …

middle school faced the longest closures. A structural model of human capital accumulation predicts that the US school …

This Article argues for reorienting the role of "school resource officers" or "SROs" away from criminal justice and … restorative-justice programs. Schools and school districts must work to curb the ability of SROs to mete out punishment by …

groups of pupils to multi-grade classes. We find that school-starters benefit from exposure to second-graders in measures of …

This paper estimates the effect of a full year of the COVID-19 pandemic on school performance, focusing on students at … the end of upper secondary school who are about to enter the labour market or start university without having had the …-in-differences models to analyse the performance of two cohorts of students in Italy: a cohort that has never been exposed to the pandemic …

credit. School nursing services is one such area, and provides important benefits to individual students and the general … citizenry. However, the extent to which these services are delivered to students are seldom clearly described, and the costs of … results, nursing and many other school services are easily targeted for downsizing and budget cutbacks. This is not good …