- 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 …

comportment grading across German federal states to estimate its causal effect on students’ school-to-work transitions as well … are consistent with these grades being insufficiently salient for students to alter actual student behaviors …

school tracks also to align with their own aspirations – resulting in greater misallocation of students … 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 …

paper, we further explore the effectiveness of the lowest-ranked instructors: students. We confirm that students are almost … instructors. We conclude that hiring moderately more student instructors would not harm students, but exclusively using them will …

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

We consider long-term impacts of establishing school psychology offices in Norway, which introduced ‘maturity testing …’ to advice parents and school boards on school starting age. In the early reform period, children born close to the … normative age cut-off who reached school-starting age after the establishment were more likely to finish compulsory schooling …

school year. All students, not only struggling students, are pulled out. We find that students in treatment schools increased … years. The intervention includes students aged 7-9 and consists of pulling students from their regular mathematics classes … their performance in mathematics by .16 standard deviations at the end of the school year and by .06 standard deviations in …

which combined the two lower secondary school tracks, sometimes additionally offering the possibility to acquire a … significantly improves students' reading achievement. Lower-performing student groups – boys, students born abroad, and students … school degree, attending the most academic track, or repeating a grade …

successfully pass through this school, controlling for the students competencies after tutoring, but before the transition. Using … PISA and linked register data from Switzerland, we find that students who had private tutoring before the transition are … more likely to fail in the selective school than students who had the same level of competencies without tutoring …

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 … cohorts. More segregated schools enroll students with lower baseline achievement and employ lower valueadded teachers …