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:...

In the educational production process of the school system, report cards provide a crucial performance feedback for students. Sweden was a pioneer in abolishing numerical grades from report cards in elementary school, as grades were considered harmful for students’ motivation to learn. In this...

Bildungsungleichheit ist ein Hauptgrund dafür, dass Einkommensunterschiede über Generationen hinweg bestehen bleiben. Da das im Erwachsenenalter erzielte Einkommen mit kognitiven Fähigkeiten im Schulalter zusammenhängt, werden die schulischen Fähigkeiten von Kindern mit deren...

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...