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Are 12 years of schooling sufficient for preparation for tertiary education? : evidence from the reform of secondary school duration in Germany ; conference paper

Meyer, Tobias; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2014 - This version: February 28, 2014

An important education reform in Germany reduced the duration of university preparatory schooling from 13 to 12 years, but left the curriculum unchanged. In the state of Saxony-Anhalt the reform was completed in 2007 with a double cohort of graduates, providing a natural experiment. We use...

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Does Class Size Matter for School Tracking Outcomes after Elementary School? Quasi-Experimental Evidence Using Administrative Panel Data from Germany

Argaw, Bethlehem - 2017

causal effect of class size on school tracking outcomes after elementary school. Our identification strategy relies on the … tracked into more or less academic middle school types at about age ten based, to a large extent, on academic achievement in … elementary school. We mostly find no or small effects of class size in elementary school on receiving a recommendation or on the …

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The Impact of All-Day Schools on Student Achievement - Evidence from Extending School Days in German Primary Schools

Seidlitz, Arnim; Zierow, Larissa - 2021

- on school performance. We combine data from the National Educational Panel Study covering 5348 primary school students …This paper studies the effect of longer school days - induced by voluntary all-day programs in German primary schools … with municipality-level information on all-day school investments. Facing the challenge of selection into all-day school …

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The impact of all-day schools on student achievement : evidence from extending school days in German primary schools

Seidlitz, Arnim; Zierow, Larissa - 2020

- on school performance. We combine data from the National Educational Panel Study covering 5771 primary school students …This paper studies the effect of longer school days - induced by voluntary all-day programs in German primary schools … with municipality-level information on all-day school investments. Facing the challenge of selection into all-day school …

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