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 …

This paper uses a particular school exit rule previously in effect in England and Wales that allowed students born … within the first five months of the academic year to leave school one term earlier than those born later in the year …

middle school faced the longest closures. A structural model of human capital accumulation predicts that the US school …

school. -- central exit exams ; value added ; achievement ; teacher quality …

Nationwide school choice and fixed per-student governmental funding provide incentives for Dutch schools to perform … outside option to public and other schools, this paper considers the effect of catholic competition on non-catholic school …

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 …

more likely to enroll in 'Gymnasium', the most academic secondary school track, and that (ii) primary school teachers give … results imply that controlling for social skills would significantly reduce estimates of the height-school premium. With … respect to education policy, our findings suggest that early school tracking might increase disadvantages for students with …