Numerous countries require teachers to assign comportment grades rating students' social and work behavior in the classroom. However, the impact of such policies on student outcomes remains unknown. We exploit the staggered introduction of comportment grading across German federal states to...

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...

Being exposed to compulsory religious education in school can have long-run consequences for students’ lives. At different points in time since the 1970s, German states terminated compulsory religious education in public schools and replaced it by a choice between ethics classes and religious...

Numerous countries require teachers to assign comportment grades rating students’ social and work behavior in the classroom. However, the impact of such policies on student outcomes remains unknown. We exploit the staggered introduction of comportment grading across German federal states...

Die Lohnlücke zwischen Frauen und Männern (der sogenannte Gender Pay Gap) wird üblicherweise in Bevölkerungsgruppen untersucht, die ihre Bildungslaufbahn bereits abgeschlossen haben. In diesem Beitrag betrachten wir eine frühere Phase der Berufstätigkeit, indem wir den Gender Pay Gap unter...

We study whether compulsory religious education in schools affects students’ religiosity as adults. We exploit the staggered termination of compulsory religious education across German states in models with state and cohort fixed effects. Using three different datasets, we find that abolishing...

Dieser Beitrag vergleicht die Corona-Bildungspolitik in Deutschland mit sechs ausgewählten Ländern Europas im Zeitraum von Januar 2020 bis Mai 2021. Es zeigt sich, dass der bisherige deutsche Weg bezüglich Schulen in der Pandemie besonders einschränkend für Kinder und Jugendliche war:...

How can we encourage untapped work potentials, such as young mothers, to participate in the labor market? The present study addresses this issue by providing a direct measure for the relevance of job-related amenities for mothers work decision, namely mothers' marginal willingness to pay (MWP)...

In spring 2020, governments around the globe shut down schools to mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus. We argue that low-achieving students may be particularly affected by the lack of educator support during school closures. We collect detailed time-use information on students before...