relate workforce participation and school enrolment of children aged 10-15 to geographic variation in relative tariff …

introduced an educational reform enabling high school graduates earlier labor market entry. By shortening the length of upper … secondary school leaving the overall curriculum unchanged, the reform did not only make German graduates more competitive on the … exploiting the variation in high school duration over time and across states as a quasi-natural experiment. Using rich data from …

instructional quantity and the timing of instruction with respect to age. To identify causal effects, I exploit a school reform … carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment: between 2001 and 2007, academic-track high school … the variation in the curriculum taught to same-aged students at academic-track high school over time and across states to …

We study the impact of a student's ordinal rank in a high-school cohort on educational attainment several years later …. To identify a causal effect, we compare multiple cohorts within the same school, exploiting exogenous variation in cohort … composition. We nd that a student's ordinal rank in high-school signi cantly affects educational outcomes later in life. If two …

success in later life. The learning environment at school focuses on knowledge and cognitive skills. The transmission of … school may affect the formation of personality. E.g. working while attending school is seen as a stepping stone toward … find beneficial effects on character skills. Working while attending secondary school leads to a higher internal locus of …

traditional public high school to the performance of students who took the same courses through the Florida Virtual School, the … largest state virtual school in the U.S. We find that FLVS students are positively selected in terms of prior achievement and … demographics, but perform about the same or somewhat better on state tests once their pre-high-school characteristics are taken …

years of education of the labour force or the school enrolment rates as proxies for the stock of human capital. However …