educational policy and science. We exploit a unique variation in Lower Saxony, Germany, where performance based tracking was … school tracking increased test scores at the upper tail and lowered test scores at the lower tail of the skill distribution …The effects of early school stratification on scholastic performance have been subject to controversial debates in …

Saxony, Germany, where performance based tracking was preponed from grade 7 to grade 5 in 2004, i.e. with the completion of … on a changes-in-changes framework. Our results indicate that preponed school tracking increased test scores at the upper …Whether early school stratification is conducive or detrimental to scholastic performance has been subject to …

effects of attending a more advanced track in middle school on long-term education and labor market outcomes for Germany, a …Despite its efficiency in tailoring education to the needs of students, a tracking system has the inherent problem of … misallocating students to tracks because of incomplete information at the time of the tracking decision. This paper investigates the …

An important education reform in Germany reduced the duration of university preparatory schooling from 13 to 12 years …

13 to 12 years without changing the graduation requirements. In this paper, we use nationwide data on high school …. The results show that enrollment in university education in the first year after high school graduation is reduced in all …

causal effect of class size on school tracking outcomes after elementary school. Our identification strategy relies on the … quasi-random assignment of students to different class sizes based on maximum class size rules. In Germany, students are … tracked into more or less academic middle school types at about age ten based, to a large extent, on academic achievement in …

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 5348 primary school students … with municipality-level information on all-day school investments. Facing the challenge of selection into all-day school …

The positive effects of early childhood programs on children's school success have been demonstrated in the literature … particularly true for Germany where most programs are community-based Kindergartens operated under similar structural conditions …. In this study we examine the relationship between Kindergarten attendance and the 7th grade school placement of children …

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 …