School quality is hard to define and measure. It is influenced by not only school expenditures, but also … identifying the effect of specific neighbourhood and school characteristics on educational attainment, we focus on correlations in … final years of schooling among neighbouring children and school mates. We find a clear trend of declining influence of …

.g. the use of school vouchers that could lead to social segregation. This article critically analyzes this line of reasoning …

determined whether they would attend an academically oriented grammar school or a lower level secondary school. The reform … proceeded at an uneven pace in different areas, so that both secondary school systems coexist during the 1960s and 70s. The … selective school system on student achievement. Previous studies analyzing this transition have typically used a value …

, die bildungsökonomische Rolle des Staates vor diesem Hintergrund auf den Ebenen der Schule, des Dualen Systems, der …