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. …

In Germany, the streaming of students into an academic or nonacademic track at age 10 can be revised at later stages of … 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 …

In Germany, the poor performance in PISA 2000 stimulated a heated public debate and a strong policy response. The …, informs about important policy reforms following the PISA shock in 2000. It further gives a description of the current … situation and persisting inequalities at secondary schools, with particular attention paid to students with migratory …

error in the peer background variable. When we correct for measurement error we find within school estimates close to the …

error in the peer background variable. When we correct for measurement error we find within school estimates close to the …

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 …

- 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 …

- 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 …

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