typically migrate at different ages within a given family. We consider several education outcomes conditional on family fixed …

With girls having overtaken boys in many education indicators, the 'feminization' of elementary school teaching is …' effects on students' tracking outcomes. Germany tracks students at age 10 into more or less academic school types. I find … recommendations or school choice. Even when following students into middle school, no effects of elementary-school teacher gender on …

New technologies offer many promises to improve student learning, but efforts to bring them to the classroom often fail … impact of a one-to-one technology program implemented on a large scale over a multiyear period. With administrative school … implemented in a midsize school district. We find that while short-term impacts of the program were modest, math scores improved …

through the fixed effects of a student’s peers. The only data requirements are multiple outcomes per student and hetero …

With girls having overtaken boys in many education indicators, the "feminization" of elementary school teaching is …' effects on students' tracking outcomes. Germany tracks students at age 10 into more or less academic school types. I find … recommendations or school choice. Even when following students into middle school, no effects of elementary-school teacher gender on …

typically migrate at different ages within a given family. We consider several education outcomes conditional on family fixed …

In this study, we analyse the long-term effects of school starting age on smoking behaviour and health in adulthood …. School entry rules combined with birth month are used as an instrument for school starting age. The analysis adopts the … German Socio-Economic Panel data and employs a fuzzy regression discontinuity design. The results reveal that school starting …

have advocated increasing the time that elementary school children spend in physical education (PE) classes. However … spillovers to achievement test scores. -- obesity ; physical activity ; physical education ; children ; health …

This paper analyses the effects of maternal school starting age and maternal age-at-birth on children's short and long …-term outcomes using Finnish register data. We exploit a school-starting-age rule for identification. Mothers who are born after the … school entry cut-off give birth at higher age, but total fertility and earnings are unaffected. Being born after the cut …

difference-in-differences estimation comparing the internal grades of 8th and 9th graders of the same school, before and after … explanations, and argue that this zero effect could be a consequence of teachers' uncertainty about how to improve their students …