Without a school degree, students can have difficulty in the labor market. To improve the lives of upper …-secondary school dropouts, German states instituted a school reform that awarded an interim degree to high-track students upon … completion of Grade 9. Using retrospective spell data on school and labor market careers from the National Educational Panel …

In Germany and many other countries, students are tracked into various secondary school types. This paper studies …. The reform replaced parents choice about their children s secondary school type by a binding teacher recommendation. Our …

(tracking and heterogeneous/bimodal groups) on student learning outcomes during middle school. Both strategies yielded an …

We study the effect of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the probability to pass the final high-school exam for … Palestinian students in the West Bank during the Second Intifada (2000-2006). By exploiting within-school variation in the number …

below the age of 21 on the attainment of a high school degree. While we find evidence that the prospect of financial loss in … of an increase in the graduation rate in high school. …

degree completion and reduce dropout in higher education, but not in high school. We argue that the higher prevalence of …

degree completion and reduce dropout in higher education, but not in high school. We argue that the higher prevalence of …

degree completion and reduce dropout in higher education, but not in high school. We argue that the higher prevalence of …