dampened in municipalities with high-skill politicians and school principals, which are more likely to allocate the marginal …

Is it possible to compress instruction time into fewer school years without lowering education levels? A fundamental … remaining school years to provide students with a very similar core curriculum and the same overall instruction time. Using …

Is it possible to compress instruction time into fewer school years without lowering education levels? A fundamental … remaining school years to provide the same overall instruction time and curriculum. Using aggregated administrative data on the …

published at the school level or at a higher level of aggregation. Publication at the school level potentially improves student … variation in the disclosure system of national assessment results across municipalities, we show that publishing school …

The paper examines whether meeting performance targets in tests at school has an effect on students' subsequent …, affect their current effort in preparing for a test, and how previous performance affects the effort in teaching by a school …

In Germany and many other countries, students are tracked into various secondary school types. This paper studies …. The reform replaced parents choice about their children s secondary school type by a binding teacher recommendation. Our …

We estimate the effect of school size on students' long-term outcomes such as high school completion, being out of the … estimators. We use the natural population variation in the residential catchment areas and school openings and closures to … instrument for actual school size. We find a robust positive but numerically fairly small relationship between school size and …