, I use historical shifts in the school year schedule in Germany, which substantially shortened the duration of the … affected school years without adjusting the core curriculum. The loss of classroom instruction was mainly compensated for by …

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

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

-service cognitive and pedagogical skills as measured by two state examinations and the high-school GPA on later effectiveness. I apply …

I study the effects of selective admission policies in the context of school tracking. Depending on the federal state … in Germany, either teachers or parents have the discretion to decide which secondary school track a child may attend … after primary school. Applying a differences-in-differences approach, I exploit variation in the implementation and …

identify the effects of tuition fees on enrollment probabilities of German high-school graduates. Based on information on … enrollment decisions for the entire population of high-school graduates between 2002 and 2007 I find a small but significant …

the German state of Hessen to measure the persistence of school entry age's impact on choice of secondary school track …. Based on exogenous variation in the school entry age by birth month, we obtain regression discontinuity estimates for … different cohorts and grades up to the end of secondary education. We show that the effect of original school entry age on a …

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 …