to stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children …. Swedish data show that in the second half of the 20th century more skilled students increasingly enrolled in college and ended … up with more skilled partners and more skilled children. Exploiting college expansions, we find that better college …

outcomes for students in Lower Track Secondary Schools in Germany. We find mostly insignificant effects of the treatment on … average outcomes, which mask quite heterogeneous effects. For those students, who are taking extra cursework to continue …. In contrast, educational outcomes improve for students who do not take extra coursework. Hence, the treatment causes a …

today's students. The educational expansion was a demand shock in the labor market of teachers, which could have thus …-affected teacher with an educational expansion teacher leads to a 2 percent reduction in students' test scores. Explorative analyses …

outcomes for students in Lower Track Secondary Schools in Germany. We find mostly insignificant effects of the treatment on … average outcomes, which mask quite heterogeneous effects. For those students, who are taking extra cursework to continue …. In contrast, educational outcomes improve for students who do not take extra coursework. Hence, the treatment causes a …

non-cognitive skills with a novel measure of lead exposure, we follow 800,000 children from birth into adulthood. We find …

experiments to estimate the effects of universal preschool programs for children aged 0-6 years on child outcomes measured from …-to-costs ratios and find ratios clearly above one. Universal preschool tends to be more beneficial for children with low socioeconomic …

The previous literature has shown that children who enter school at a more advanced age outperform their younger …Kinder, die bei der Einschulung älter sind als ihre Mitschüler, da sie deutlich vor dem Einschulungsstichtag geboren …

class on the academic success of newly immigrated primary school-aged children in comparison to their direct integration … 2019, we use the quasi-random allocation of refugee children to neighborhoods and therewith schools to measure the effect … immigrated children directly into regular classrooms fosters their academic achievement more than schooling them first in …