(HRT) with additional classroom management duties significantly improves students' test scores and cognitive and …. More experienced or female HRTs are also associated with a better classroom environment, more self-motivated students, more …

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. …

universal random assignment of students to high schools in certain areas of South Korea to provide estimates of school effects … estimates, while causal, may also reflect peer effects due to differences in peer quality of non-randomized students. We exploit … that may better reflect the effects of school practices. We find significant effects of schools on scores in high …

Do increased instruction hours improve the performance of all students? Using PISA scores of students in ninth grade …) overalmost five years. In the additional time, students are taught new learning content. On average, the reform improves student …-performing students do not benefit, high-performing students benefit the most. The findings suggest that increases in instruction hours …

lower-secondary school and high school byexploiting a large longitudinal dataset of about 50,000 students in Italy. We … counterparts, after controlling for householdcharacteristics, school fixed effects, and students' performance. We show … findthat immigrant students are less likely to choose challenging academic track highschools compared with their Italian …

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 …

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 … aggregated administrative data on the full population of students, we find that the reform increases grade repetition rates and …

This paper provides evidence of the effect of age at school entry on college admission and earnings. It does so by … applicants with different ages at school entry depending on whether they were born on December 31 or on January 1, our estimates …

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 …