school track suitable for their child, changing the purpose of the primary teacher's recommendation from mandatory to … rates to the higher school tracks increased substantially, with stronger responses among children from richer districts …. Simultaneously, grade repetition in the first grades of secondary school increased dramatically, suggesting that parents choose …

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 …

This paper studies a school district that was federally mandated to adopt a race-blind lottery system to fill seats in … lotteries by race to offset its predominantly black applicant pools. The change dramatically segregated subsequent magnet school …

middle school faced the longest closures. A structural model of human capital accumulation predicts that the US school …

public school, affects students’ academic and short-term postsecondary outcomes. We apply two estimation methods to data on …This paper provides a comprehensive study on how attending a Swedish independent upper secondary school, instead of a …-discontinuity (RD) estimation around admission cutoffs to independent versus public schools. As the RD-results are overall too imprecise …

’ choices of school sector. We document four central facts. First, public school enrollment declined noticeably in fall 2020 … driven by homeschooling rates jumping substantially, driven largely by families with children in elementary school. Third …

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

) of Norwegian schools, where between-school differences are smaller than in the US. I find that VA indicators are able to … predict in-school performance without bias. Furthermore, VA is strongly related to long-term outcomes, and differences between … differences in school quality, rather than unobserved student characteristics. Analyses of teacher grades and exam scores suggest …

The passage of Title IX, the 1972 Education Amendments to the Civil Rights Act, expanded high school athletic … opportunities to include girls, revolutionizing mass sports participation in the United States. This paper analyzes high school … enhancements to its enforcement. Approximately half of all girls currently participate in sports during high school; however, there …