Eine effiziente und gerechte Bildungspolitik zählt zu den bedeutendsten Themen unserer Gesellschaft. Anhand dreier empirischer Studien analysiert Anna Makles, wie mit entsprechendem Ressourceneinsatz und bildungspolitischen Steuerungsmaßnahmen ungünstigen Ausgangslagen von Kindern und...

The effect of school closures and distance learning during the COVID19 pandemic on student achievement is still the subject of discussion. After the end of the pandemic-related restrictions, learning losses of students are being assessed and state programs were launched to help students catch up...

This paper makes use of the regional variation in schooling legislation within the German secondary education system to estimate the causal effect of central exit examinations on student performance. We propose a difference-in-differences framework that exploits the quasi-experimental nature of...