The central vs. local nature of high-school exit exam systems can have important repercussions on the labor market. By … high-school grades is indeed 6 percent when obtained on central exams but less than 2 percent when obtained on local exams …

In this paper, we study how high school students reacted to the shocking news of a school shooting. The shooting … coincided with national high-school matriculation exams. As there were exams both before and after the shooting, we can use a … difference-in-differences analysis to uncover how the school shooting affected the test scores compared to previous years. We …

2006–07 school years, roughly 20,000 of whom left teaching during that time. Among grade 4–8 teachers leaving for other …

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

We model centralized school matching as a second stage of a simple Tiebout-model and show that the two most discussed … disadvantaged if the school priorities are based on ex ante known (social) differences of the applicants …

respect to grades and teacher recommendations for secondary school tracks that cannot be explained by differences in student … inequalities at the transition to secondary school tracks due to their generally less favorable socio-economic background. We …

A dynamic discrete choice model is set up to estimate the effects of grade retention in high school, both in the short … initial conditions and with partial observability of the track choices at the start of high school. Forced track downgrading …

high school graduation in Massachusetts, with especially large effects on the likelihood of qualifying for a state …

results of a national high-school test known as Unified State Exam (USE). One of the main goals of the reform was to make … a substantial increase in mobility rates among high school graduates from peripheral areas to start college by about 12 … share of educational expenditures in the last year of the child's high school. We find no effect on parental labor supply …