primary school enrollment cutoff dates with micro data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP). Using a regression … discontinuity design around the school enrollment cutoff and an instrumental variable approach I show that children’s schooling …

all due to differences in what students bring with them to school - socio-economic background, cultural factors, and the … like? Or do school systems make a difference? This essay argues that differences in features of countries' school systems … uses the framework of an education production function to provide descriptive analysis of the extent to which different …

knowledge. We show that achievements of low ability students may be higher in a comprehensive school system, even if there are … neither synergy effects nor interdependent preferences among classmates. This arises because the comprehensive school sets a …

Hierarchical and comprehensive school systems are compared with respect to efficiency. At given ability, a student …?s probability of not completing school rises with increasing mean ability in class. Both school systems can yield identical average … failure rates. Given that output losses in case of failure are stronger for more talented students, the comprehensive school …

on the conceptual framework of an education production function, we cover evidence on child, parent, and school inputs …If school closures and social-distancing experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic impeded children's skill development …, they may leave a lasting legacy in human capital. To understand the pandemic's effects on school children, this paper …