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A library in the palm of your hand? : a randomized reading intervention with low-income children

Anger, Silke; Christoph, Bernhard; Gałkiewicz, Agata Danuta - 2024

Reading skills are crucial for academic success and long-term educational attainment. However, children from … intervention conducted in Germany targeting 11-12-year-olds from low-income households. The intervention involved distributing e …-book readers, which provided free access to a large digital library of age-appropriate books, directly to the children's homes. Our …

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The effects of occupational knowledge : job information centers, educational choices, and labor market outcomes

Saniter, Nils Peter (contributor); … - 2014

administrative districts with a JIC, have higher educational attainments and a smoother transfer to the labor market than students …

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Student internships and employment opportunities after graduation : a field experiment

Baert, Stijn; Neyt, Brecht; Siedler, Thomas; Tobback, Ilse - 2019

Internships during tertiary education have become substantially more common over the past decades in many industrialised countries. This study examines the impact of a voluntary intra-curricular internship experience during university studies on the probability of being invited to a job...

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University tuition fees and high school students' educational intentions

Bahrs, Michael; Siedler, Thomas - 2018

high school students and, if so, whether the effect on individuals from low-income households is particularly strong. We … decrease of around eight percentage points (ten percent). Individuals from low-income households mainly drive the results. This …

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Childhood family structure and schooling outcomes : evidence for Germany

Francesconi, Marco (contributor); … - 2005

We analyze the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common unobserved determinants of family structure and...

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Childhood family structure and schooling outcomes : evidence for Germany

Francesconi, Marco; Jenkins, Stephen; Siedler, Thomas - 2006

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