population for macroeconomic performance. Estimation results from a theoretically founded empirical framework show that aging as …

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 … of the long-term causal effects exploits state and year variation in school entry regulations. The results show that …

achievement-based admissions requirements (i.e. binding track recommendations) in Germany's between-school tracking system. The …

Using microsimulations, we nowcast the impact of learning losses caused by COVID-19 on secondary school completion … average, secondary school completion rates decrease by 12 percentage points overall and by 16 points for children with low …-educated parents. Interestingly, in most countries the gender gap diminishes because for men the projected decrease in secondary school …