driven by homeschooling rates jumping substantially, driven largely by families with children in elementary school. Third …’ choices of school sector. We document four central facts. First, public school enrollment declined noticeably in fall 2020 … was remote, suggesting heterogeneity in parental concerns about children’s physical health and instructional quality …

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 …

effects on school grades, but these negative effects are largely confined to children born extremely preterm (<28 weeks of … school environment is very important for the outcomes of preterm born children, such that those born extremely preterm that … births on school grades using sibling fixed effect models which compare individuals with their non-preterm siblings. We test …

At the age of ten German pupils are given a secondary school track recommendation which largely determines the actual …

admission qualifications. The results demonstrate the importance of understanding high school students’ preferences and beliefs …

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

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

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 …

among more affluent parents whose children flee. In contrast, among less prosperous parents, integration in public education … decreases their children's human capital levels. I demonstrate that the poor, who cannot opt out, incur greater costs than the …