This paper evaluates the effects of a high school curriculum reform that was introduced in one German state on high … school dropout. The reform increased the standards of the curriculum by reducing the freedom of choice in course selection … states, we identify the reform effect on students' probability to graduate from high school. The results show that high …

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 …

-test score school inputs and outcomes regardless of the new principal's value added, but that brand new principals have a …

We consider the role played by school leaders in improving pupil attainment, going beyond previous studies by exploring … below headship level are associated, at least to some extent, with improved school performance in Single Academy Trusts, but …

asymmetry: males do not and females do benefit from exposure to more female classmates with less school absence and improvement …

curriculum on supply of and demand for apprenticeship training. Modernizations of training curricula provide us with a quasi … when they have more choice options in the training curriculum because of (1) the higher productivity of graduates who have … 2014. We find that a more heterogeneous curriculum increases both firms' supply of and students' demand for training places. …

This paper evaluates the effects of a high school curriculum reform on students' probability to enroll at university … one German state increased the degree of difficulty to graduate from high school by increasing the mandatory instruction …

substantial positive impacts of double-dose algebra on credits earned, test scores, high school graduation and college enrollment …

, curriculum. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, we compare changes in the labor market outcomes of graduate cohorts from … the affected faculty, before-and-after the curriculum revision, to changes in the labor market outcomes of graduate … cohorts from the other faculties. We do not find evidence that curriculum breadth matters for these labor market outcomes …