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 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 …

education, assuming that the institutional setup of the school system remains unchanged. …

enter (primary) school. Early age at school entry significantly affects mobility and reduces the relative advantage of …

Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary-school … between primary and secondary school across tracked and non-tracked systems. Six international student assessments provide …

We ran a field experiment at a large Dutch school for intermediate vocational education to examine whether the response …

argue that low-achieving students may be particularly affected by the lack of educator support during school closures. We … collect detailed time-use information on students before and during the school closures in a survey of 1,099 parents in …