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Cross-National Estimates of the Intergenerational Mobility in Earnings

Lillard, Dean R. - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 51-58

This paper examines the similarity in the association between earnings of sons and fathers in Germany and the United States. It relaxes the log-linear functional form imposed in most studies of the intergenerational earnings association. Theory implies the relationship between earnings of...

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Siblings, Their Sex Composition and Educational Attainment in Germany

Bauer, Thomas; Gang, Ira N. - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 68 (1999) 2, pp. 215-221

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The decline of schooling productivity in OECD countries

Gundlach, Erich; Wößmann, Ludger; Gmelin, Jens - 2000

Based on Baumol’s cost-disease model, we develop two alternative measures of the change in the productivity of schooling. Both productivity measures are based on changes in the relative price of schooling. We find that in most OECD countries the price of schooling has increased faster in...

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Bildungssysteme im internationalen Vergleich

Voßkamp, Rainer; Dohmen, Dieter - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 77 (2008) 2, pp. 11-32

Bildungssysteme sind integrale Subsysteme nationaler Innovationssysteme. Die Generierung, Anwendung und Diffusion von neuem Wissen und die Umsetzung von Wissen in neue Produkte und Prozesse stellt durch die zunehmende technologische Komplexität wachsende Bildungsanforderungen an die im...

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New Evidence on the Missing Resource-Performance Link in Education

Wößmann, Ludger - 2001

New evidence confirms the conclusion of former surveys that the link between school resources and student performance is generally missing in educational production. While the conventional within-country cross-section evidence remains controversial, recent contributions which control for...

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Institutional Effects in a Simple Model of Educational Production

Wößmann, Ludger; Bishop, John H. - 2001

institutional arrangements on student performance. In a simple principal-agent framework, students choose their learning effort to …

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Orphanhood and critical periods in children's human capital formation: Long-run evidence from North-Western Tanzania

Hagen, Jens; Omar Mahmoud, Toman; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2010

considerable impact heterogeneity across age at bereavement, but less so for the death of opposite-sex parents. In terms of long …-term health status as measured by body height, children who lose their same-sex parent before teenage years are hit hardest …. Maternal bereavement does not fit into this pattern as it affects educational attainment of younger and older children in a …

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Educational Opportunities of Children in Poverty

Schöb, Anke - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 172-179

In this paper, I use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) to investigate whether and how a German youth' s choice of secondary school (Hauptschule, Realschule, Gymnasium) varies with the timing and duration of poverty experienced in childhood. To investigate what role the timing of...

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Luxusgut Kind zwischen Privatinteresse und gesellschaftlicher Verpflichtung: zu den Kontroversen in der familienpolitischen Debatte

Ott, Notburga - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 71 (2002) 1, pp. 11-25

auch der zu ergreifenden Maßnahmen. Während die einen Kinder als Privatangelegenheit der Eltern ansehen, fordern die …

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Familienpolitik: ordnungspolitische Leitplanken im dichten Nebel des Verteilungskampfes

Berthold, Norbert; Fehn, Rainer - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 71 (2002) 1, pp. 26-42

für oder gegen Kinder zunächst einmal einzig und allein bei den Eltern liegen sollte, dass aber ex post die Argumente …

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