on unobservables. -- Secondary school choice ; school quality instrumental variable estimation ; selection on …This paper studies the effect of attending a high-quality secondary school on subsequent educational outcomes. The … secondary school choice (between ages 10-12) and later when they self-report on their intentions with regard to their further …

class size on student outcomes based on within-school variation of cohort size over time. This type of variation is commonly … administrative data on school enrollment for all primary schools in one federal state of Germany, we find support for this …

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 …, are more likely to take AP classes, graduate high school, enroll in college, and ultimately have higher earnings 19 years …

In the 2000s, a major educational reform in Germany reduced the academic high school duration by one year while keeping … constant the total number of instructional hours before graduation. The instructional hours from the eliminated school year … shifted to lower grade levels, which increased the time younger students spend at school. This study explores the impact of …

This study estimates mean and distributional effects of early between-school ability tracking on student achievement … school, about 40% of students are selected for the academic track and taught in separate schools in all states. The remaining … students, however, are either taught comprehensively or further tracked into two different school forms depending on the state …

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 …

We examine the impact of family income during childhood on the type of secondary school that German children attend, a …

background in the state school sector. Focusing on this sector, we show that cross-country differences in segregation are … separate school tracks for academic and vocational schooling and, in each case, over half of this is accounted for by …

This paper studies the effect of attending a high-quality secondary school on subsequent educational outcomes. The … secondary school choice (between ages 10-12) and later when they self-report on their intentions with regard to their further … significant effects of attending a high-quality school, we cannot rule out that the estimates are not in fact driven by selection …