instructional time unchanged. Employing administrative data on all high school graduates in 2002-2013 in Germany, we exploit both … fundamental education reform in Germany tackles this trade-off by reducing high school by one year while leaving the total … that compressing the high school track by one year reduces the mean high school graduation age by about 10 months. The …

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 …

variance of net income for German high-school graduates, using only information available to those graduates at the time of the …-adjusted returns to an academic education increase the probability of university enrollment. Second, high-school graduates are …, in which a high-school graduate decides to enter university studies if expected lifetime utility from this choice is …

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 …

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 …

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 …

across federal states at different points in time, the reform increased the minimum number of school years from eight to nine …

It is well established that teachers are the most important in-school factorin determining student outcomes. However …

the context of German law graduates. Using a difference-in-differences research design combined with entropy balancing, we …