us to address these problems. We find that an adolescent's performance at the end of junior high-school are strongly …

, sampling pupils at the end of primary school, in the middle of secondary school and several years after secondary school … robust and significant positive effects on educational attainment for pupils who enter school at seven instead of six years …We estimate the effect of age of school entry on educational attainment using three different data sets for Germany …

We investigate second generation migrants and native children at several stages in the German education system to … decomposition methods. Accounting for differences in socioeconomic background, we find that migrant pupils are just as likely to … receive recommendations for or to enroll at any secondary school type as native children. Comparable natives, in terms of …

researchers and widely contested by teachers' unions. A key concern is the extent to which nonrandom sorting of students to …

institutions reinforce each other in slowing or preventing people from learning the correct underlying parameters. …

the short-run effects of parents' illness on child school enrollment. Our analysis is based on household panel data from … shocks to the primary household earner should have more negative consequences for child education - it is especially maternal … health are about 7 percentage points less likely to be enrolled in education at ages 15-24. These results are robust to …

the short-run effects of parents’ illness on child school enrollment. Our analysis is based on household panel data from … shocks to the primary household earner should have more negative consequences for child education – it is especially maternal … health are about 7 percentage points less likely to be enrolled in education at ages 15-24. These results are robust to …

reduces the disparity in test scores. The intervention increases formal school enrollment by 42 percentage points among all … children and increases test scores by 0.51 standard deviations (1.2 standard deviations for children that enroll in school …). While all students benefit, the effects accrue disproportionately to girls. Evidence suggests that the village-based schools …

This paper investigates the impact of working while in school on learning outcomes through the use of a unique micro … panel dataset of students in the São Paulo municipal school system. The potential endogeneity of working decisions and … learning outcomes is addressed through the use of a difference-in-difference estimator and it is shown that the results are …

This paper investigates the impact of working while in school on learning outcomes through the use of a unique micro … panel dataset of students in the São Paulo municipal school system. The potential endogeneity of working decisions and … learning outcomes is addressed through the use of a difference-in-difference estimator and it is shown that the results are …