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Number of Siblings and Educational Choices of Immigrant Children : Evidence from First- and Second-Generation Immigrants
Meurs, Dominique - 2015
We document the educational integration of immigrant children with a focus on the link between family size and … associated with higher educational outcomes for immigrant children, possibly through a quantity-quality trade-off. Third, we show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016388
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Persistence of the School Entry Age Effect in a System of Flexible Tracking
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2007
In Germany, the streaming of students into an academic or nonacademic track at age 10 can be revised at later stages of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776353
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Does the Early Bird Catch the Worm? Instrumental Variable Estimates of Educational Effects of Age of School Entry in Germany
Puhani, Patrick A.; Weber, Andrea Maria - 2021
We estimate the effect of age of school entry on educational attainment using three different data sets for Germany, sampling pupils at the end of primary school, in the middle of secondary school and several years after secondary school. Results are obtained based on instrumental variable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318152
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Does Class Size Matter for School Tracking Outcomes after Elementary School? Quasi-Experimental Evidence Using Administrative Panel Data from Germany
Argaw, Bethlehem - 2017
We use administrative panel data on about a quarter of a million students in the German state of Hesse to estimate the … quasi-random assignment of students to different class sizes based on maximum class size rules. In Germany, students are … actual choice to attend the more academic middle school type. For male students, we find that an increase in class size by 10 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012940851