Without a school degree, students can have difficulty in the labor market. To improve the lives of upper …-secondary school dropouts, German states instituted a school reform that awarded an interim degree to high-track students upon … completion of Grade 9. Using retrospective spell data on school and labor market careers from the National Educational Panel …

to estimate learning losses. It models the effect of school closures on achievement by predicting the deviation of the …

This paper estimates the effect of a full year of the COVID-19 pandemic on school performance, focusing on students at … the end of upper secondary school who are about to enter the labour market or start university without having had the … mathematics and reading (approximately 0.4 s.d. in both domains). Low-achieving pupils suffered the most, increasing the gap …

We evaluate the impact of the Gambian hardship allowance, which provides a salary premium of 30-40% to primary school …

We study the origins of what has become one of the most radical and encompassing programmes of school reform seen in … academies are conversions from already existent state schools and so are school takeovers that enable more autonomy. Our … schools experiencing the largest increase in their school autonomy relative to their predecessor state. Analysis of mechanisms …

published at the school level or at a higher level of aggregation. Publication at the school level potentially improves student … variation in the disclosure system of national assessment results across municipalities, we show that publishing school …

We study the effect of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the probability to pass the final high-school exam for … Palestinian students in the West Bank during the Second Intifada (2000-2006). By exploiting within-school variation in the number …

degree completion and reduce dropout in higher education, but not in high school. We argue that the higher prevalence of …