significantly improves students’ reading achievement. Lower-performing student groups – boys, students born abroad, and students …

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

In Germany and many other countries, students are tracked into various secondary school types. This paper studies … whether parents or teachers assess students potential educational performance more adequately. Educational attainment is … recommendations cause less grade retentions. The effect is mainly driven by students from better situated districts. This finding may …

Students from low-income families are eligible to student aid under the federal students' financial assistance scheme … received by eligible students to raise enrolment rates into tertiary education. We view this reform as a 'natural experiment …