Over the 2000s, many federal states in Germany shortened the duration of secondary school by one year while keeping the …

achievement-based admissions requirements (i.e. binding track recommendations) in Germany's between-school tracking system. The … main contribution is to show that while previously ineligible high-SES students are relatively more likely to enroll in the … highest (academic) track than comparable low-SES students after the repeal, the SES gap in academic track enrollment does not …

student background at two important stages in a student?s life as well as to explain cross-country differences in educational … opportunities by schooling institutions. A difference-in-differences estimation approach is applied to control for country … more instruction time limits the impact of social origin on student performance. Higher school autonomy increases the …

-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 to become … an educational dropout. The influence of school achievements on the dropout probability tends to decrease and the …

setting. The thirteenth year of schooling was eliminated for those students currently attending the ninth grade. Tenth grade … students were unaffected. The academic curriculum remained almost unaltered. Using primary data from the double cohort of …

terms of the skill contents of jobs held and the type of payment individuals receive for their work. An increase in school …