In Germany, the streaming of students into an academic or nonacademic track at age 10 can be revised at later stages of …

significantly improves students’ reading achievement. Lower-performing student groups – boys, students born abroad, and students …

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

school attributes seem to matter? Do selective schools con-tribute to their students' ; success, or is their performance … attributable to the higher ability of the students they accept? By taking a structural approach we answer all these questions in … one go. We find that students seem to infer quality from past performance in the University entrance exam. There also …

school attributes seem to matter? Do selective schools con-tribute to their students' success, or is their performance … attributable to the higher ability of the students they accept? By taking a structural approach we answer all these questions in … one go. We find that students seem to infer quality from past performance in the University entrance exam. There also …

, grades, and persistence. I estimate that two thirds of the plan's 9.1 point impact on top-decile students' probability of … attending a flagship university was due to information rather than mechanical effects. Students induced to enroll are more … likely to come from low- income high schools, and academically outperform the students that they displace. These effects …

where students are randomly assigned to tutorial groups. We find this to be largely not the case. Academic rank is unrelated … to students' current and future performance and only weakly positively related to students' course evaluations. Building …

-added school from among the set of feasible schools, then this reallocation of students would increase academic achievement …

In the course of the Bologna Process, European higher education systems have experienced major reforms. In Germany as … students from underrepresented groups, such as those from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds. To evaluate this reform … indicate that the shortening has no (positive) effect on the share of students from low social origins …