achievement-based admissions requirements (i.e. binding track recommendations) in Germany's between-school tracking system. The …

eligibility for contextual admission. The estimated effects on high school leaving exam scores of attending elite schools vs … the most selective flagship school vs elite schools, has a large negative and statistically significant effect, which is … data that matches high school preferences of the population of urban middle school graduates in one Chinese prefecture in …

universal random assignment of students to high schools in certain areas of South Korea to provide estimates of school effects … that may better reflect the effects of school practices. We find significant effects of schools on scores in high …-stakes college entrance exams: a 1 standard deviation increase in school quality leads to 0.06-0.08 standard deviations higher …

effects of attending a more advanced track in middle school on long-term education and labor market outcomes for Germany, a … favorable long-term outcomes. We attribute this result to the up- and downgrading of students between tracks after middle school … exposure to a less advanced school environment. …