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Kindergarten Enrollment and the Intergenerational Transmission of Education

Bauer, Philipp - 2009

We use Swiss data to test whether intergenerational educational mobility is affected by the age at which children …

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Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment in Germany : The Last Five Decades

Heineck, Guido; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2021

Over the last decades the German education system underwent numerous reforms in order to improve equality of opportunity, i.e. to guarantee all pupils equal access to higher education. At the same time internationally comparative evidence yields that Germany features particularly low...

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Intergenerational Transmission of Unemployment : Evidence for German Sons

Mäder, Miriam - 2014

This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. Using instrumental variables estimation and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what...

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Should Schools Grade Student Behavior? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Comportment Grade Reforms

Schoner, Florian; Mergele, Lukas; Zierow, Larissa - 2021

are consistent with these grades being insufficiently salient for students to alter actual student behaviors …

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Apprenticeship, Vocational Training and Early Labor Market Outcomes in East and West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T. - 2015

We study the returns to apprenticeship and vocational training for three early labor market outcomes all measured at age 25 for East and West German youths: non-employment (i.e., unemployment or out of the labor force), permanent fulltime employment, and wages. We find strong positive effects of...

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Students' Behavioural Responses to a Fallback Option : Evidence from Introducing Interim Degrees in German Schools

Obergruber, Natalie - 2018

Without a school degree, students can have difficulty in the labor market. To improve the lives of upper …-secondary school dropouts, German states instituted a school reform that awarded an interim degree to high-track students upon …-track completion, university entrance rates, and later income, arguably by reducing the perceived risk of trying longer in the high …

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What Drives the Reversal of the Gender Education Gap? Evidence from Germany

Riphahn, Regina T. - 2015

We study the mechanisms that are associated with the gender education gap and its reversal in Germany. We focus on three outcomes, graduation from upper secondary school, any tertiary education, and tertiary degree. Neither individual and family background nor labor market characteristics appear...

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The Impact of All-Day Schools on Student Achievement - Evidence from Extending School Days in German Primary Schools

Seidlitz, Arnim; Zierow, Larissa - 2021

- on school performance. We combine data from the National Educational Panel Study covering 5348 primary school students …

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The Baby Year Parental Leave Reform in the GDR and its Impact on Children's Long-Term Life Satisfaction

Heisig, Katharina - 2019

-- on children's long-term life satisfaction. The historical setting under study, namely the former German Democratic …

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