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Life expectancy and parental education in Germany
Huebener, Mathias - 2019
This study analyses the relationship between life expectancy and parental education. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study and survival analysis models, we show that maternal education is related to children's life expectancy - even after controlling for children's own level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011981368
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Parental unemployment and the transition into tertiary education : can institutions moderate the adverse effects?
Lindemann, Kristina; Gangl, Markus - 2018
This paper examines how parental unemployment affects the transition to postsecondary education in different institutional contexts. Drawing on theoretical perspectives in intergenerational mobility research and sociology of higher education, we estimate the extent to which these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011869485
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Are recessions good for educational attainment?
Ochsen, Carsten - 2010
children. Using data for Germany, we find that an economic downturn, coupled with increased unemployment, affects children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008825074
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Locus of control and investment in training
Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Seitz, Helke; … - 2016
This paper extends standard models of work-related training by explicitly incorporating workers' locus of control into the investment decision. Our model both differentiates between general and specific training and accounts for the role of workers and firms in training decisions. Workers with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011591440
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Analyzing zero returns to education in Germany : heterogeneous effects and skill formation
Kamhöfer, Daniel A.; Schmitz, Hendrik - 2013
compulsory schooling on wages in Germany. We go beyond these studies and test a potential reason for it, namely that basic skills … are learned earlier in Germany and additional years of schooling are not effective anymore. This is done by also … have a causal effect on cognitive skills in Germany. This is consistent with the explanation for zero effects of schooling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010197409
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Kick it like Özil? : decomposing the native-migrant education gap
Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; Schüller, Simone - 2012
secondary schooling in Germany which are not migrant-specific. -- Migration ; education ; human capital ; Germany ; tracking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009681447
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How does education improve cognitive skills? : instructional time versus timing of instruction
Dahmann, Sarah - 2015
carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment: between 2001 and 2007, the academic-track high school … (Gymnasium) was reduced by one year in most of Germany's federal states, leaving the overall curriculum unchanged. To investigate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011287017
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What Accounts for International Differences in Student Performance? : A Re-Examination Using PISA Data
Fuchs, Thomas; Woessmann, Ludger - 2004
We use the PISA student-level achievement database to estimate international education production functions. Student characteristics, family backgrounds, home inputs, resources, teachers and institutions are all significantly related to math, science and reading achievement. Our models account...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262036
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Education policy and equality of opportunity
Schütz, Gabriela; Ursprung, Heinrich W.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2005
We provide a measure of equality of educational opportunity in 54 countries, estimated as the effect of family background on student performance in two international TIMSS tests. We then show how organizational features of the education system affect equality of educational opportunity. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267527
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Economic gains from publicly provided education in Germany
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - 2007
impact on the income distribution in Germany. Using representative micro-data from the SOEP and considering regional and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011630022