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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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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...

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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...

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Bildungssysteme im internationalen Vergleich

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

Länder und insbesondere Deutschland durch den demografischen Wandel stehen. Abschließend wird kurz dargelegt, welche … international comparison it is analyzed to what extent the education system in Germany and other OECD countries meet the … many countries and especially Germany are confronted with by the demographic change. Finally, it will briefly reviewed …

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Privacy, time consistent optimal labor income taxation and education policy

Konrad, Kai A. - 1999

Incomplete information is a commitment device for time consistency problems. In the context of time consistent labor income taxation privacy can lead to a Pareto superior outcome and increases the effectiveness of public education as a second best policy.

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Determinants of financial literacy among German students : an empirical analysis

Riebe, Katharina - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 89 (2020) 4, pp. 39-53

Finanzkompetenzen haben für die gesellschaftliche Teilhabe eine hohe Bedeutung. Dieser Beitrag führt eine empirische Evaluation der Determinanten der Finanzkompetenz von Studierenden an einer deutschen Hochschule durch. Ein weiteres Ziel ist auch die Identifizierung der geschlechtsspezifischen...

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Education, Redistributive Taxation and Confidence

Konrad, Kai A.; Spadaro, Amedeo - 2005

We consider redistributional taxation between people with and without human capital if education is endogenous and if individuals differ in their perceptions about own ability. Those who see their ability as low like redistributive taxation because of the transfers it generates. Those who see...

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Institutional Effects in a Simple Model of Educational Production

Bishop, John H.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2002

The paper presents a model of educational production which tries to make sense of recent evidence on effects of institutional arrangements on student performance. In a simple principal-agent framework, students choose their learning effort to maximize their net benefits, while the government...

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Human Capital Investment and Globalization in Extortionary States

Andersson, Fredrik; Konrad, Kai A. - 2001

This paper considers education investment and public education subsidies in closed and open economies with an extortionary government. The extortionary government in a closed economy has incentives to subsidize education in order to overcome a hold-up problem of time consistent taxation, similar...

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Selective Schools

Brunello, Giorgio; Giannini, Massimo - 1999

This paper studies how schooling admission tests affect economic performance in an economy where individuals are endowed with both academic and non academic abilities and both abilities matter for labor productivity. We develop a simple model with selective government held schools, where...

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