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 …

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 …

, even after conditioning on prior measures of school performance. We then provide causal evidence that a low …

strategies. To explain the data, we introduce expectation-based loss aversion into a school-choice setting and characterize …

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

’ 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 …

groups or individuals who see a personal advantage in more school choice, such as parents of school-age children, urban …-income groups, and individuals with a teaching qualification oppose more school choice. The analyses also indicate differences …

This paper evaluates average educational performance effects of an expanding independent school sector at the … increase in the share of independent-school students between Swedish municipalities. We find that an increase in the share of … independent-school students improves average performance at the end of compulsory school as well as long-run educational outcomes …

This paper provides a comprehensive study on how attending a Swedish independent upper secondary school, instead of a … public school, affects students’ academic and short-term postsecondary outcomes. We apply two estimation methods to data on … suggest a positive independent school effect on: final GPA, test results in English and Swedish, the likelihood of graduating …

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 …