13 to 12 years without changing the graduation requirements. In this paper, we use nationwide data on high school …. The results show that enrollment in university education in the first year after high school graduation is reduced in all …

‘Gymnasium', as this school track starts at a very early age and opens the way to an academic career. The database is the German … after primary school. In a second step, we model dropping-out of ‘Gymnasium' in the following years. Students are more …, the influence of social origins seems to be weaker here than during the decision to enter this school type. We also find …

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 …

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 …

The positive effects of early childhood programs on children's school success have been demonstrated in the literature …. In this study we examine the relationship between Kindergarten attendance and the 7th grade school placement of children … citizens and children's later school placement. However, for children in immigrant households the reverse is true: later 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 …

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 …