-based tracking on student performance is mixed. Using rich data from the Hungarian secondary school centralized assignment mechanism …

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

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. …

Previous research shows that, in tracked school systems, enrollment decisions are strongly associated with future … collected within the Arianna Project, an independent school track counseling service run by the municipality of a large city in … school. We show that students' enrollment intentions are very often inconsistent with their actual potential as revealed by …

This paper provides a comprehensive study on how attending a Swedish independent upper secondary school, instead of a … public school, affects students' academic and short-term post-secondary outcomes. We apply two estimation methods to data on … suggest a positive independent school effect on: final GPA, test results in English and Swedish, the likelihood of graduating …

This paper provides a comprehensive study on how attending a Swedish independent upper secondary school, instead of a … public school, affects students’ academic and short-term post-secondary outcomes. We apply two estimation methods to data on … suggest a positive independent school effect on: final GPA, test results in English and Swedish, the likelihood of graduating …

Extant research on school entry and compulsory schooling laws finds that these policies increase the high school … the evolution of postsecondary impacts of the interaction of school entry and compulsory schooling laws in Michigan. We … employ a regression-discontinuity (RD) design using longitudinal administrative data to examine effects on high school …

This paper examines educational outcomes of pupils selected to secondary school types by different tracking regimes in … secondary school. Positive effects are observed for pupils with a less favorable family background. Quantile regressions reveal …

This paper examines the effects of increasing the compulsory school leaving (CSL) age from 16 to 18 in Hungary using a … of elementary school in 1998. Identification is based on compliance with the age of elementary school start rule …. Compliance with the age rule creates a discontinuity in the probability of starting school under the higher CSL age regime around …