instructional quantity and the timing ofinstruction with respect to age. To identify causal effects, I exploit a school reform … carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment: between 2001 and 2007, the academic-track high school … the variation in the curriculum taught to same-aged students at academic-track high school over time and across states to …

This paper investigates the short-term effects of a reduction in the length of high school on students' personality … traits using a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment. Starting in 2001 …, academic-track high school (Gymnasium) was reduced from nine to eight years in most of Germany's federal states, leaving the …

This paper investigates the short-term effects of a reduction in the length of high school on students' personality … traits using a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment. Starting in 2001 …, academic-track high school (Gymnasium) was reduced from nine to eight years in most of Germany's federal states, leaving the …

educational attainment of dependent children. We add to this literature and examine children's secondary school track choice in … school. …

development of cognitive skills, school grades, personality, time use and ambition using representative data from the German Socio …-Economic Panel (SOEP). Our findings suggest that adolescents with music training have better cognitive skills and school grades and … music lessons and educational outcomes: socio-economic background, personality, involvement with the child's school, and …

development of cognitive skills, school grades, personality, time use and ambition using representative data from the German Socio …-Economic Panel (SOEP). Our findings suggest that adolescents with music training have better cognitive skills and school grades and … music lessons and educational outcomes: socio-economic background, personality, involvement with the child's school, and …

-Economic Panel from 2000 to 2007. In addition to the role of classical variables like family background and school achievements, we … examine the effect of noncognitive skills. Both, better school grades and higher noncognitive skills reduce the risk of … becoming an educational dropout. The influence of school achievements on the dropout probability tends to decrease and the …