opportunities by schooling institutions. A difference-in-differences estimation approach is applied to control for country … more instruction time limits the impact of social origin on student performance. Higher school autonomy increases the …

We examine the effect of single motherhood on children's secondary school track choice using a sample of 14 years old … single parenthood reduces school attainment mainly because it is associated with lower resources (income and time) available …

graduation tests, (4) state defined minimums for the total number of courses students must take and pass to get a high school … data to evaluate the effects of CBEEES. High school graduation standards differ a lot across states in the U.S. This … allowed us to measure policy effects on student achievement and labor market success after high school by comparing states in …

single parenthood on children’s educational attainment, measured by the school track at the age 14, using ordered probit … children drawn from the German Socio-Economic Panel. -- school choice ; educational attainment ; ordered response model …

system affect equality of educational opportunity. Our model predicts that late tracking and a long pre-school cycle are … beneficial for equality, while pre-school enrollment is detrimental at low levels of enrollment and beneficial at higher levels …

births on school grades using sibling fixed effect models which compare individuals with their non-preterm siblings. We test … for heterogeneous effects by degree of prematurity, as well as whether family socioeconomic resources and school … effects on school grades, but these negative effects are largely confined to children born extremely preterm (<28 weeks of …