causal effect of class size on school tracking outcomes after elementary school. Our identification strategy relies on the … quasi-random assignment of students to different class sizes based on maximum class size rules. In Germany, students are … tracked into more or less academic middle school types at about age ten based, to a large extent, on academic achievement in …

outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

centralized systems (Italy and Germany) lagging behind the more autonomous ones (Canada, Sweden, the UK, the US). For Italy, we … are able to match organizational practices at the school level with students' outcomes in a math standardized test. We …

effect of age at school entry on educational attainment for West and East Germany. Empirical results from linear probability …Determining the optimal age at which a child should enter school is a controversial topic in education policy. In …, established age of school entry at 6 years remains appropriate. Policies of encouraging early school entry or increased …

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 …

We study how managerial practices of school principals affect student performance and aspirations. We link … administrative data on secondary Italian students to the management scores of their school principals in 2011 and 2015 based on the … World Management Survey methodology. The frequent turnover of school principals over this period allows us to causally …