reform in China that was rolled out between 2004 and 2010 with the explicit intention of shaping youths' ideology. To measure …We study the causal effect of school curricula on students' stated beliefs and attitudes. We exploit a major textbook … its effect, we present evidence from a novel survey we conducted among 2000 students at Peking University. The sharp …

more demanding curriculum to better serve their most able students, again at the expense of medium ability students. The … adjust their curricula: Less selective public colleges adopt a less demanding curriculum in order to accommodate the influx … of less able students. As we argue in the paper, this adjustment benefits low-ability college students at the expense of …

selective colleges to lower their curricular demands, low-ability students benefit at the expense of medium-ability students … better serve their most able students. This stylized model of curricular product differentiation in higher education offers …

We estimate the impact of a large curriculum reform in Switzerland that substantially increased the share of foreign … language classes in compulsory school on students' subsequent educational choices in upper secondary school. Using … administrative student register data and exploiting the staggered implementation of the curriculum reform, we find that exposure to …

and students' cognitive and socio-emotional development. The German panel evidence shows that children's learning time … decreased severely during the first school closures, particularly for low-achieving students, and increased only slightly one … activities. The review shows substantial losses in cognitive skills on achievement tests, particularly for students from …

This paper examines the impacts of the Michigan Merit Curriculum (MMC), a statewide college-preparatory curriculum that … students in Michigan for the main analyses, and complement this with analyses from a state-year panel. The study employs … that ACT science scores improved by 0.2 points (or roughly 0.04 standard deviations) as a result of the MMC. Students who …

due to the Covid-pandemic. Treated students met in small groups, in alternating weeks with and without a more senior … student tutor. The treatment improved study behavior and increased contact to other students. Tutored students achieved around …

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 … Germany. We find that while students on average reduced their daily learning time of 7.4 hours by about half, the reduction …

education in top colleges accessible to students from peripheral areas who typically did not enroll in university programs …

enrollment of disadvantaged students by 32%. But the intended beneficiaries were nearly three times as many, and of higher … average ability, than those induced to be admitted. The evidence points to students making pre-college choices that caused … this divergence. Using linked survey-administrative data, we present evidence consistent with students being averse to …