Do increased instruction hours improve the performance of all students? Using PISA scores of students in ninth grade …) overalmost five years. In the additional time, students are taught new learning content. On average, the reform improves student …-performing students do not benefit, high-performing students benefit the most. The findings suggest that increases in instruction hours …

Despite increasing access to university education, students from disadvantaged or non-academic family backgrounds are … from a German randomized controlled trial in which students in high schools were treated with information on the benefits … increases intended college enrollment for students from a non-academic family background, while it leads students from academic …

information in a randomized controlled trial with more than 1,000 German high school students results in higher college enrollment … rates. One year prior to high school graduation, we treated students in randomly selected schools by giving an in …Although the proportion of students enrolled in college increased in the last decades, students from non-college family …

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 …

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 …

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 …This study estimates mean and distributional effects of early between-school ability tracking on student achievement …

This paper analyzes optimal grading in a world that focuses on top grades. Students choose an effort level, their … coarseness of the grading scale to maximize student welfare. When choosing their effort, students overweight outstanding - or …/Fail scales (tenure decisions) via A-F-scales (school) to fully disclosing scores (e.g. SAT). …

students' personality traits in adolescence. We focus on personality traits as part of their non-cognitive skills set and as …