In Germany, the streaming of students into an academic or nonacademic track at age 10 can be revised at later stages of … the German state of Hessen to measure the persistence of school entry age's impact on choice of secondary school track …. Based on exogenous variation in the school entry age by birth month, we obtain regression discontinuity estimates for …

all due to differences in what students bring with them to school - socio-economic background, cultural factors, and the …Students in some countries do far better on international achievement tests than students in other countries. Is this … like? Or do school systems make a difference? This essay argues that differences in features of countries' school systems …

all due to differences in what students bring with them to school – socio-economic background, cultural factors, and the …Students in some countries do far better on international achievement tests than students in other countries. Is this … like? Or do school systems make a difference? This essay argues that differences in features of countries' school systems …

specifically good match with their children. I investigate the effect of attending a preferred school on student achievement in … assignment which awards school offer based on admission priority, residential distance, and parental preference. I compare … students around year-specific catchment boundaries that cannot be exactly anticipated by parents. I find that attending the …

remaining school years to provide students with a very similar core curriculum and the same overall instruction time. Using …Is it possible to compress instruction time into fewer school years without lowering education levels? A fundamental … aggregated administrative data on the full population of students, we find that the reform increases grade repetition rates and …

This paper provides evidence of the effect of age at school entry on college admission and earnings. It does so by … applicants with different ages at school entry depending on whether they were born on December 31 or on January 1, our estimates …

We estimate the effect of school size on students' long-term outcomes such as high school completion, being out of the … estimators. We use the natural population variation in the residential catchment areas and school openings and closures to … instrument for actual school size. We find a robust positive but numerically fairly small relationship between school size and …

declines and increasing number of the share of low performing students across European countries. Results of previous national …

schools and all pupils within these schools to analyse the role of the school in accounting for this variation. We analyse a … and attainment levels at the end of secondary schooling. We examine indicators that were the focus of the school … account for a minority of the variance in pupil attainment, and the extent of the variation accounted for by the school is …

technology in education. Many schools today provide personal computers not only to older students, but also in primary school …. There is little credible evidence on how one-to-one (1:1) computer programs affect learning outcomes among younger pupils …. We investigate how 1:1 computer technology impacts student performance in primary school in Sweden, using data from an …