remaining school years to provide students with a very similar core curriculum and the same overall instruction time. Using …Is it possible to compress instruction time into fewer school years without lowering education levels? A fundamental … aggregated administrative data on the full population of students, we find that the reform increases grade repetition rates and …

Do increased instruction hours improve the performance of all students? Using PISA scores of students in ninth grade …) overalmost five years. In the additional time, students are taught new learning content. On average, the reform improves student …-performing students do not benefit, high-performing students benefit the most. The findings suggest that increases in instruction hours …

Over the 2000s, many federal states in Germany shortened the duration of secondary school by one year while keeping the …

which combined the two lower secondary school tracks, sometimes additionally offering the possibility to acquire a … significantly improves students’ reading achievement. Lower-performing student groups – boys, students born abroad, and students … school degree, attending the most academic track, or repeating a grade. …

Over the 2000s, many federal states in Germany shortened the duration of secondary school by one year while keeping the …

international PISA test (2009). We extend the analyses in two ways and find that students must differ considerably in the time … substantially between different school (ability) tracks and that additional instruction time significantly increases the within-school …

international PISA test (2009). We extend the analyses in two ways and find that students must differ considerably in the time … substantially between different school (ability) tracks and that additional instruction time significantly increases the within-school …

Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of how school curricula affect students in … the US does not only affect related knowledge of students and adulthood attitudes, but also translates into high …-stakes occupational choices. Chapter 4 exemplifies that school curricula reforms can also have unintended consequences by showing that a …

Portugal. Considering only general school students, the differences between big and small cities are not statistically … books at home and a variable combining the type and location of their school represent the most important predictors of … student performance in all of the analysed countries, while other school characteristics are rarely relevant. Econometric …