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Additional career assistance and educational outcomes for students in lower track secondary schools

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Licklederer, Stefanie - 2017

Based on local policy variation, this paper estimates the causal effect of additional career assistance on educational outcomes for students in Lower Track Secondary Schools in Germany. We find mostly insignificant effects of the treatment on average outcomes, which mask quite heterogeneous...

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Understanding the response to high-stakes incentives in primary education

Bach, Maximilian; Fischer, Mira - 2020

This paper studies responses to high-stakes incentives arising from early ability tracking. We use three complementary research designs exploiting differences in school track admission rules at the end of primary school in Germany’s early ability tracking system. Our results show that the need...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012499810

Class rank and long-run outcomes

Denning, Jeffrey T.; Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix - 2018

This paper considers a fundamental question about the school environment - what are the long run effects of a student's ordinal rank in elementary school? Using administrative data from all public school students in Texas, we show that students with a higher third grade academic rank,...

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Strategic grade retention

Bach, Maximilian - 2019

Most school systems grant teachers and school principals considerable discretion in grade retention decisions. This paper argues that schools can exploit this discretion by selectively retaining students to reduce class size which potentially has important implications for public spending on...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012146345

Understanding the response to high-stakes incentives in primary education

Bach, Maximilian; Fischer, Mira - 2020

This paper studies responses to high-stakes incentives arising from early ability tracking. We use three complementary research designs exploiting differences in school track admission rules at the end of primary school in Germany's early ability tracking system. Our results show that the need...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314944

Complex approaches for education in Brazil

Sakowski, Patrícia Alessandra Morita; Tóvolli, Marina H. - 2016

Education systems can be viewed as complex systems, by considering that learning, teaching, cognition and education are phenomena resulting from interactions between the heterogeneous agents that compose such systems. Given the complex nature of education systems, new approaches seem relevant,...

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Birth cohort size variation and the estimation of class size effects

Bach, Maximilian; Sievert, Stephan - 2020

We show that in school systems with grade retention or redshirting, birth cohort size is negatively related to the grade-level share of students who are too old for their grade. This compositional effect gives rise to an upward bias in estimates of class size effects based on commonly used...

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Heterogeneous responses to school track choice : evidence from the repeal of binding track recommendations

Bach, Maximilian - 2021

This paper studies heterogeneity in schooling decisions by socio-economic status (SES) in response to a repeal of achievement-based admissions requirements (i.e. binding track recommendations) in Germany's between-school tracking system. The main contribution is to show that while previously...

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The long-term effect of age at school entry on competencies in adulthood

Görlitz, Katja; Penny, Merlin; Tamm, Marcus - 2019

The previous literature has shown that children who enter school at a more advanced age outperform their younger classmates on competency tests taken between kindergarten and Grade 10. This study analyzes whether these effects of school starting age continue into adulthood. Based on data on math...

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Testing

Bergbauer, Annika Barbara; Hanushek, Eric Alan; … - 2018

students in 59 countries observed over 6 waves in the international PISA test 2000-2015. Our empirical model exploits the … achievement. The effect of school-based comparison is stronger in low-performing countries. By contrast, solely internal testing … without external comparison and internal teacher monitoring including inspectorates do not affect student achievement. …

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