Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary-school … between primary and secondary school across tracked and non-tracked systems. Six international student assessments provide … ; selectivity ; comprehensive school system ; education performance ; inequality ; international student achievement test ; TIMSS …

Extant research on school entry and compulsory schooling laws finds that these policies increase the high school … the evolution of postsecondary impacts of the interaction of school entry and compulsory schooling laws in Michigan. We … employ a regression-discontinuity (RD) design using longitudinal administrative data to examine effects on high school …

hours on household chores also reduces. We find that school enrollment and child labor are highly substitutable in rural … more successful than child labor laws in combatting child labor - as monitoring school enrollment is much easier. …

This paper analyzes the impact of longer school schedules on children's 2nd grade reading comprehension skills in Chile … choose full-day schools, and after controlling for selection, longer school schedules lead to an increase of 0.14 standard …) and urban schools, and among girls. We also find that the benefits of longer school days accumulate over time. …

as a natural experiment. We compare the probabilities of gaining selective school entry - which in our study period meant … attending a grammar school - before and after the Act using a difference-in-difference approach. Before 1944, grammar school … children were required to take a competitive 11+ exam and about one-third gained a grammar school place. Pre-1944 we find the …