Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary-school … between primary and secondary school across tracked and non-tracked systems. Six international student assessments provide …

were school-aged when exposed to the war. The findings show a strong negative impact of the genocide on schooling, with …

This paper investigates how changing the length of school year, leaving the basic curriculum unchanged, affects … learning and subsequent earnings. I use variation introduced by the West-German short school years in 1966-67, which exposed … some students to a total of about two thirds of a year less of schooling while enrolled. I show that the short school years …

university at the time of completing high school significantly affects the decision to enrol in tertiary education. Controlling …

hold for both state and private school students. This suggests that poor attainment in secondary schools is more important …

admission to their state university of choice for all high school seniors who graduate in the top decile of their high school … change discontinuously for previously high-performing school districts. We also find evidence that these strategic reactions … were influenced by the number of local schooling options available: areas that had fewer school choices showed no reaction …