This paper evaluates the effects of a high school curriculum reform that was introduced in one German state on high … school dropout. The reform increased the standards of the curriculum by reducing the freedom of choice in course selection … states, we identify the reform effect on students ́probability to graduate from high school. The results show that high …

This paper evaluates the effects of a high school curriculum reform that was introduced in one German state on high … school dropout. The reform increased the standards of the curriculum by reducing the freedom of choice in course selection … states, we identify the reform effect on students' probability to graduate from high school. The results show that high …

This paper evaluates the effects of a high school curriculum reform that was introduced in one German state on high … school dropout. The reform increased the standards of the curriculum by reducing the freedom of choice in course selection … states, we identify the reform effect on students' probability to graduate from high school. The results show that high …

The level of educational attainment in Mozambique is one of the lowest in the world and primary school completion rate …) the determinants of school dropout; (2) the variables that are associated with school dropout in the year of the survey … pregnancy are consistently associated with higher dropout rates. Our results also suggest that building or renovating a school …

differences over time in the warning index to estimate the effects of the pandemic on dropout, promotion, and school switching …

discontinuity design, we compare students who marginally pass and marginally fail the French high school exit exam from the first …

This paper analyzes the impact of longer school schedules on children's 2nd grade reading comprehension skills in Chile … choose full-day schools, and after controlling for selection, longer school schedules lead to an increase of 0.14 standard …) and urban schools, and among girls. We also find that the benefits of longer school days accumulate over time …

seven school districts serving higher-income, predominantly-white families. While prior research has studied the impacts of …

exclusion of poorly performing pupils. In England there were two phases of academy school introduction, the first in the 2000s … being a school improvement programme for poorly per-forming schools, the second a mass academisation programme from 2010 for …

Using a rich dataset that merges student-level school records with birth records, and leveraging a student fixed … effects design, we explore how the massive scale-up of a Florida private school choice program affected public school students … suspension rates) attending public schools closer to more pre-program private school options. Effects are particularly pronounced …