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

This paper studies a large-scale educational expansion to evaluate whether shocks to school inputs have an impact on … doubled enrollment in adult education, thus putting considerable strain on school inputs. Since the policy targeted … stronger negative shocks to peer quality and school resources such as teacher credentials and perpupil expenditure. Then, I …

variation in school attendance, allowing us to remove self-selection bias. Despite large differences in teacher quality and peer … quality across these school types, we find little evidence of any relative benefit in attending an assisted school between the …