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Central School Exit Exams and Labor-Market Outcomes

Piopiunik, Marc; Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2012

Many countries use centralized exit exams as a governance devise of the school system. While abundant evidence suggests positive effects of central exams on achievement tests, previous research on university-bound students shows no effects on subsequent earnings. We suggest that labor-market...

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Why Does Height Matter for Educational Attainment? Evidence from German Pre-Teen Children

Cinnirella, Francesco; Piopiunik, Marc; Winter, Joachim - CESifo - 2010

Several studies have shown that body height is positively associated with educational attainment. In this paper, we investigate the mechanisms behind this relationship using data on German pre-teen students. We show that (i) taller children are more likely to enroll in ‘Gymnasium’, the most...

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Effects of Innovation on Employment: A Dynamic Panel Analysis

Lachenmaier, Stefan; Rottmann, Horst - CESifo - 2007

This paper estimates the effect of innovation on employment at the firm level. Our uniquely long innovation panel data … set of German manufacturing firms covers more than 20 years and allows us to use various innovation measures. We can … distinguish between product and process innovations as well as between innovation inputs and innovation outputs. Using dynamic …

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Does Innovation Cause Exports? Evidence from Exogenous Innovation Impulses and Obstacles

Lachenmaier, Stefan; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2004

Trade and growth theories predict a mutual causation of innovation and exports. We test empirically whether innovation … exogenous to firms’ export performance. We find that innovation attributable to this variation leads to an increase of roughly 7 …

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