Using a comprehensive administrative database we exploit independent quasi-experimental methods to estimate the effect of class size on student achievement in Norway. The first method is based on a maximum class size rule in the spirit Angrist and Lavy (1999). The second method exploits...

Among policymakers, educators and economists there remains a strong, sometimes heated, debate on the extent to which good schools matter. This is seen, for instance, in the strong trend towards establishing accountability systems in education in many countries across the world. In this paper, in...

This paper provides evidence on the socioeconomic gradient in dropout and progression in upper secondary education in Norway. Using a rich data set covering all students transferring from compulsory education to upper secondary education in 2002, we find that student achievement at the end of...

Using a structural life-cycle model and data on school visits from Safegraph and school closures from Burbio, we quantify the heterogeneous impact of school closures during the Corona crisis on children affected at different ages and coming from households with different parental...

Das Projekt "Smarte Schulen - SMASCH" wurde Anfang 2021 im Rahmen des Zentrums für Digitalisierungs- und Technologieforschung der Universitäten der Bundeswehr (dtec.bw) initiiert. Dtec.bw wurde von der Bundesregierung unter der Überschrift "Corona-Folgen bekämpfen, Wohlstand sichern,...

Zum Schutz vor Corona musste das Lernen und Lehren an Hochschulen, Schulen sowie anderen Aus- und Weiterbildungseinrichtungen zeitweise nahezu vollständig ins Digitale überführt werden. Doch auch schon vor Corona hat kaum noch jemand ausschließlich analog, also ohne digitale Unterstützung,...

Even today, school segregation continues to be understood as legitimate in Germany. Charting the discourse of learning disability provides insights into special education's development as a segregated, independent system of school types and the resulting legitimacy that contributes to the...