comportment grading across German federal states to estimate its causal effect on students’ school-to-work transitions as well …

This paper studies the effect of longer school days - induced by voluntary all-day programs in German primary schools … - on school performance. We combine data from the National Educational Panel Study covering 5348 primary school students … with municipality-level information on all-day school investments. Facing the challenge of selection into all-day school …

We examine the effects of a comprehensive school reform on mental health. The reform postponed the tracking of students …

which combined the two lower secondary school tracks, sometimes additionally offering the possibility to acquire a … school degree, attending the most academic track, or repeating a grade …

Developing effective tools to address prime-aged high school dropouts is a key policy question. We leverage high … policy reform which greatly enabled access to high school education for adults. Our focus is on women and the results show a …

secondary school on subsequent first year outcomes at university. The duration of Iceland´s upper-secondary education was …

Using a rich dataset that merges student-level school records with birth records, and leveraging a student fixed … effects design, we explore how the massive scale-up of a Florida private school choice program affected public school students … suspension rates) attending public schools closer to more pre-program private school options. Effects are particularly pronounced …

Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary-school … between primary and secondary school across tracked and non-tracked systems. Six international student assessments provide …

We show that, when school quality is measured by the educational standard and attaining the standard requires costly … relatively high cost of effort, who would find the high standards of the public school excessively demanding. With the key …