remaining school years to provide students with a very similar core curriculum and the same overall instruction time. Using … aggregated administrative data on the full population of students, we find that the reform increases grade repetition rates and …

Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of how school curricula affect students in … the US does not only affect related knowledge of students and adulthood attitudes, but also translates into high …

This paper estimates the effect of a full year of the COVID-19 pandemic on school performance, focusing on students at …-in-differences models to analyse the performance of two cohorts of students in Italy: a cohort that has never been exposed to the pandemic … and a cohort that graduated in 2021. We find that the pandemic had a huge negative impact on students' performance in …

results show that students attending vocational schools perform significantly worse than those in general schools, except in … Portugal. Considering only general school students, the differences between big and small cities are not statistically … significant, while among students in vocational schools, those in a small city tend to perform better than those in a big city …

growing up under more favorable circumstances. We examine the impact of a three-year program ("Coaching for Teaching … indication of improvement. An analysis of a survey of pupils supports the idea that the teaching as well as the classroom climate …

language classes in compulsory school on students' subsequent educational choices in upper secondary school. Using … progression of either low-track female or high-track students, it impedes low-track male students' transition to upper secondary … education. The effect of foreign language classes on the educational trajectory of low-track male students is particularly …

language classes in compulsory school on students' subsequent educational choices in upper secondary school. Using … progression of either low-track female or high-track students, it impedes low-track male students' transition to upper secondary … education. The effect of foreign language classes on the educational trajectory of low-track male students is particularly …

teaching philosophies: one follows a "no excuse" paradigm, while the other one adopts a "classical liberal", knowledge … excuse" school mostly benefits boys, while the "classical liberal" school mainly benefits White British and non-poor students …