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Pisa : What Makes the Difference? Explaining the Gap in Pisa Test Scores between Finland and Germany
Ammermueller, Andreas - 2008
The huge difference in the level and variance of student performance in the 2000 PISA study between Finland and Germany … scores than Finnish students. The results imply that early streaming in Germany penalizes students in lower school types and … school types. Overall, the variation in test scores can be explained much better by the observable characteristics in Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014071300
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Zur Ökonomie von Bildungsnetzwerken
Möhring-Lotsch, Nadine; Spengler, Thomas - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003796119
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Self-Productivity and Complementarities in Human Development : Evidence from MARS
Blomeyer, Dorothea; Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred; … - 2008
This paper investigates the role of self-productivity and home resources in capability formation from infancy to adolescence. In addition, we study the complementarities between basic cognitive, motor and noncognitive abilities and social as well as academic achievement. Our data are taken from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014214808
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Parental time investment and intergenerational mobility
Yum, Minchul - 2016
This paper investigates parental time investment in children prior to formal schooling as a source of intergenerational income persistence in the U.S. I develop a dynamic general equilibrium model where lifetime income endogenously persists across generations through multiple channels. My model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011492161
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Intergenerational mobility of education in Europe : geographical patterns, cohort-linked measures, and the innovation nexus
McNamara, Sarah; Neidhöfer, Guido; Lehnert, Patrick - 2024
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014515788
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In praise of snapshots
Kanbur, Ravi - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420839
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The economics and politics of women's rights
Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michele; Voena, Alessandra - 2011
Women's rights and economic development are highly correlated. Today, the discrepancy between the legal rights of women and men is much larger in developing compared to developed countries. Historically, even in countries that are now rich women had few rights before economic development took...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011489798
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Stories about institutions and patterns of slow economic growth from 21st century Thailand
Ramstetter, Eric D. - 2024
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Training, Mobility, and Wages : Specific Versus General Human Capital
Garloff, Alfred - 2008
This paper considers training, mobility decisions and wages together to test for the specificity of human capital contained in continuing training courses. We empirically analyse the relationship between training, mobility and wages in two ways. First, we examine the correlation between training...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012727241
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Educational Attainment and Returns to Education in Germany
Ammermueller, Andreas; Weber, Andrea Maria - 2008
Germany in the time period 1985-2002. Returns to education are estimated using Mincer equations. We analyze micro-census data … first time for Germany in such detail. The data indicate an educational expansion, especially for women in West Germany … degree subjects in West than in East Germany, especially for women …
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