TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Schoner, Florian
A1  - Mergele, Lukas
A1  - Zierow, Larissa
T1  - Grading student behavior
JF  - Labour economics
N2  - Numerous countries mandate comportment grades rating students’ social and work behavior in the classroom from teachers, yet their impact on student outcomes remains unclear. We exploit the staggered introduction of comportment grading across German federal states to estimate its causal effect on students’ school-to-work transitions, non-cognitive skills, and reading skills. Analyzing two different household surveys and student assessment data, point estimates of causal effects are close to zero for all outcomes. However, while confidence intervals for school-to-work transitions and non-cognitive skills allow us to reject meaningful effect sizes, those for reading skills are wider and need to be interpreted more cautiously. We use additional data sources to investigate potential explanations.
KW  - school reforms
KW  - report cards
KW  - school-to-work transition
KW  - tudent achievement
Y1  - 2024
SN  - 0927-5371
SS  - 0927-5371
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2024.102570
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2024.102570
VL  - 90
SP  - 1
EP  - 15
S1  - 15
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -