This study focuses on the determinants of regional heterogeneity in returns to schooling. School quality, labor market … the West German states, and correlate mainly with institutional features of the school system. A strong positive …

schooling. This result challenges prior findings for Germany of zero returns to schooling, obtained by using the same survey …

causal effect of class size on school tracking outcomes after elementary school. Our identification strategy relies on the … quasi-random assignment of students to different class sizes based on maximum class size rules. In Germany, students are … tracked into more or less academic middle school types at about age ten based, to a large extent, on academic achievement in …

This paper studies the effect of longer school days - induced by voluntary all-day programs in German primary schools … - on school performance. We combine data from the National Educational Panel Study covering 5348 primary school students … with municipality-level information on all-day school investments. Facing the challenge of selection into all-day school …

dropped on average by -55% in the US and -45% in Germany from the onset of the crisis to the summer of 2021. In the US …, schools were closed longer in richer than in poorer areas, while in Germany the regional variation is much smaller. However …, Germany exhibited substantial variation by grade level, with a strong U-shaped patterns that implies that children attending …

This paper studies the effect of longer school days - induced by voluntary all-day programs in German primary schools … - on school performance. We combine data from the National Educational Panel Study covering 5771 primary school students … with municipality-level information on all-day school investments. Facing the challenge of selection into all-day school …

schooling. This result challenges prior findings for Germany of zero returns to schooling, obtained by using the same survey …