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 …

This paper investigates how changing the length of school year, leaving the basic curriculum unchanged, affects … learning and subsequent earnings. I use variation introduced by the West-German short school years in 1966-67, which exposed … some students to a total of about two thirds of a year less of schooling while enrolled. I show that the short school years …

show that OLS estimates are severely biased. The direction of the bias depends on the secondary school type. Annual returns … school than for graduates from the lowest secondary school …

‘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 …

This study focuses on school choice processes and how they contribute to ethnic school segregation. The starting point … is a heuristic framework on school selection decisions with a sequence of three stages: the perception of school … alternatives, the evaluation of these alternatives, and eventually school access. In a step-by-step investigation of these stages …

Without a school degree, students can have difficulty in the labor market. To improve the lives of upper …-secondary school dropouts, German states instituted a school reform that awarded an interim degree to high-track students upon … completion of Grade 9. Using retrospective spell data on school and labor market careers from the National Educational Panel …