We document the educational integration of immigrant children with a focus on the link between family size and … associated with higher educational outcomes for immigrant children, possibly through a quantity-quality trade-off. Third, we show …

In Germany, the streaming of students into an academic or nonacademic track at age 10 can be revised at later stages of …

Despite its efficiency in tailoring education to the needs of students, a tracking system has the inherent problem of … misallocating students to tracks because of incomplete information at the time of the tracking decision. This paper investigates the … country with a very rigorous tracking system where the risk of misallocating students to tracks is, due to the early age at …

We use administrative panel data on about a quarter of a million students in the German state of Hesse to estimate the … quasi-random assignment of students to different class sizes based on maximum class size rules. In Germany, students are … actual choice to attend the more academic middle school type. For male students, we find that an increase in class size by 10 …