comportment grading across German federal states to estimate its causal effect on students’ school-to-work transitions as well … are consistent with these grades being insufficiently salient for students to alter actual student behaviors …

language classes in compulsory school on students’ subsequent educational choices in upper secondary school. Using … education. The effect of foreign language classes on the educational trajectory of low-track male students is particularly … pronounced for students who do not speak at home the school’s language of instruction. Finally, we find that female students who …

school year. All students, not only struggling students, are pulled out. We find that students in treatment schools increased … years. The intervention includes students aged 7-9 and consists of pulling students from their regular mathematics classes … their performance in mathematics by .16 standard deviations at the end of the school year and by .06 standard deviations in …

effects were substantial for students at California Community Colleges, the largest higher education system in the country … outcomes of these students through the first four semesters after it started. Consistent with national trends, enrollment … dropped precipitously during the pandemic – the total number of enrolled students fell by 11 percent from fall 2019 to fall …

identification, I use historical shifts in the school year schedule in Germany, which substantially shortened the duration of the … affected school years with no adjustments in the core curriculum. The lost in-school instruction was mainly compensated for by …

effects design, we explore how the massive scale-up of a Florida private school choice program affected public school students …Using a rich dataset that merges student-level school records with birth records, and leveraging a student fixed …’ outcomes. Program expansion modestly benefited students (through higher standardized test scores and lower absenteeism and …

We study the effects of two dimensions of teacher quality, subject knowledge and didactic skills, on student learning …

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 …

This paper studies how a student’s ordinal rank in a peer group affects performance and specialisation choices in … university. By exploiting data with repeated random assignment of students to teaching sections, we find that a higher rank …: improvements in rank raise performance, while decreases in rank have no effect. Rank effects partially operate through students …