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Joanna Clifton-Sprigg; Jonathan James – British Educational Research Journal, 2025
Using newly released detailed data on absence from school, we find a 'Friday effect'--children are much less likely to attend schools in England on Fridays. We use daily level data across the whole of England and find that this pattern holds for different schools and for different types of absence, including illness-related authorised and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Attendance Patterns, Student Behavior, Attendance