By the 2008/09 school year the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) abolished binding school catchment … areas (SCAs) in all municipalities. The reform has been controversial and it was feared that school choice would increase …

language classes in compulsory school on students' subsequent educational choices in upper secondary school. Using … more foreign language classes during compulsory school has only minor effects on educational choices of the overall student … pronounced for students who do not speak at home the school's language of instruction. Finally, we find that female students who …

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 investments. Facing the challenge of selection into all-day school …

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 …

-run schools, affect student achievement and school segregation across 15 countries over 16 years. Our triple …

We consider long-term impacts of establishing school psychology offices in Norway, which introduced 'maturity testing …' to advice parents and school boards on school starting age. In the early reform period, children born close to the … normative age cut-off who reached school-starting age after the establishment were more likely to finish compulsory schooling …

Does relaxing strict school discipline improve student achievement, or lead to classroom disorder? We study a 2012 … are associated with improvements in school culture, as measured by the quality of student-teacher relationships and … perceptions of safety at school. We find no evidence of trade-offs between students, with students benefiting even if they were …

Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary-school … between primary and secondary school across tracked and non-tracked systems. Six international student assessments provide …

We show that, when school quality is measured by the educational standard and attaining the standard requires costly … relatively high cost of effort, who would find the high standards of the public school excessively demanding. With the key …