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

’ 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 …

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 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 …

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 …

performance in the final exam, and with the likelihood to transition to high school. In contrast, the likelihood that the mother … for grade 9 students. These students were particularly vulnerable to dropping out of school prematurely due to the crisis …. We find that most students kept studying during the crisis, returned to school to participate in the lower …

, even after conditioning on prior measures of school performance. We then provide causal evidence that a low …Inequality of opportunity strikes when two children with the same academic performance are sent to different quality …

-market participation and earnings. The reform did not affect ethical and political values or non-religious school outcomes …