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Detailed Information

Country	Country: Germany
GDP per capita	36.814
Context details	N/A
Age	Grade 12

2. Intervention

Implementation year	1999
Implementer	Government
Duration (months)	24
Cost	N/A
Intervention details	Curriculum reform that increased curriculum standards, rose instruction time from weekly minimum of 26 hours to 30 hours, limited choice of courses

Evaluation design	Randomized evaluation
Cluster definition	Other

Sample	Outcome	Test	Source Table	Observations	Statistics on Effects
Grade 12; females	Graduation	N/A	N/A	3185002	Coeff: -3.10; SE: 0.49; SD: 100.00
Grade 12; males	Graduation	N/A	N/A	3322472	Coeff: -1.95; SE: 0.53; SD: 100.00

Study	Görlitz, Katja, and Christina Gravert. "The Effects of Increasing the Standards of the High School Curriculum on School Dropout." Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Discussion Paper Series no. 8766 (2015).