Seasonal pollen allergies affect approximately 1 in 5 school age children. Clinical research has established that these …. Here, I use data on daily pollen counts merged with school district data to assess whether variation in the airborne pollen …

While existing research supports that participation in high-school athletics is associated with better education and … public-school district to retrieve an estimate of the causal effect of high-school athletic participation on absenteeism. We …

data for the agglomeration of Prague that the specialisation structure the supply of new cohort of workers (i.e. the school … 28 professional types of secondary schools in Prague reveals that the choice of school and profession depends primarily … families and schools. -- education ; human capital ; supply and demand for working skills ; employment in industries …

the characteristics of students attending the school. As expected, central determinants of school choice are the distance …Using unique data from Pakistan we estimate a model of demand for differentiated products in 112 rural education … markets with significant choice among public and private schools. Our model accounts for the endogeneity of school fees and …

with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. It can show, for … example, that an improvement in parental outside options will reduce parental and school effort, which are partially … compensated through school resources. In this way, by incorporating the behavioral responses of parents, teachers and policymakers …

knowledge. We show that achievements of low ability students may be higher in a comprehensive school system, even if there are … no synergy effects from teaching different students together. This arises because the comprehensive school sets a … compromise standard which exceeds the standard from the low ability track. Moreover, if students with lower initial ability have …

This paper estimates a private school learning premium in Tanzania by implementing a flexible value-added model with … unique administrative data on exam scores. The dataset covers 635,000 secondary school students with information on both … their primary and lower secondary school exam records, allowing three out of four assumptions imposed in standard value …

Children growing up in disadvantaged neighborhoods tend to perform significantly worse in school compared to children … significant; the same applies to GPA and admission to upper secondary school. For test scores in Swedish language there is no … indication of improvement. An analysis of a survey of pupils supports the idea that the teaching as well as the classroom climate …

Child care and education are important inputs in the human capital production function. The research of Nobel prize … inputs, in short: skill begets skill. Therefore, it is crucial for a society to know how the public education system can … on the effects of some important aspects of education policies. It comprises an introduction and four core chapters which …

pupils, between 2007 and 2012. The identification strategy is based on the fact that for this school Fe y Alegría conducted a … lottery to determine which students would be accepted onto first grade. We could prepare our estimates only for one school … estimates the effect of one Fe y Alegria school in Peru on mathematics and reading comprehension among second grade primary …