The rise of high-stakes accountability programs was one of the most noticeable changes in the U.S. education system … exposure to accountability modestly but detectably increased educational attainment – roughly .02 years per year of exposure …. Effects on income were positive, but again modest and insignificant in most specifications. Lastly, if accountability had …

more likely to enroll in 'Gymnasium', the most academic secondary school track, and that (ii) primary school teachers give … results imply that controlling for social skills would significantly reduce estimates of the height-school premium. With … respect to education policy, our findings suggest that early school tracking might increase disadvantages for students with …

employment impacts of an after-school program, the Quantum Opportunity Program, that offered disadvantaged high-school youth …: mentoring, educational services, and financial rewards with the objective to improve high-school graduation and post …

the German state of Hessen to measure the persistence of school entry age's impact on choice of secondary school track …. Based on exogenous variation in the school entry age by birth month, we obtain regression discontinuity estimates for … different cohorts and grades up to the end of secondary education. We show that the effect of original school entry age on a …

Reaching the policy goal of improving student achieve­ment by adding resources to the school system has often proven … elusive. By contrast, ample evidence indicates that central exit exams constitute an important feature of a school system …

, sampling pupils at the end of primary school, in the middle of secondary school and several years after secondary school … robust and significant positive effects on educational attainment for pupils who enter school at seven instead of six years …We estimate the effect of age of school entry on educational attainment using three different data sets for Germany …

Swedish elementary school children stopped receiving written end of year report cards following a grading reform in … getting grades increases the probability of high school graduation for boys and girls with compulsory school educated parents … elementary school. …

, sampling pupils at the end of primary school, in the middle of secondary school and several years after secondary school … robust and significant positive effects on educational attainment for pupils who enter school at seven instead of six years …We estimate the effect of age of school entry on educational attainment using three different data sets for Germany …

The study estimates the effect of school starting age on academic performance for Hungarian grade four students using …). The study uses the control function approach, exploiting the exogenous variation in school starting age driven by the …