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Retiree Health Insurance for Public School Employees: Does it Affect Retirement?
Fitzpatrick, Maria D. - CESifo - 2013
Despite the widespread provision of retiree health insurance for public sector workers, little attention has been paid to its effects on employee retirement. This is in contrast to the large literature on health-insurance-induced “job-lock” in the private sector. I use the introduction of...
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Early Retirement Incentives and Student Achievement
Fitzpatrick, Maria D.; Lovenheim, Michael - CESifo - 2013
-scale teacher retirements on student achievement. We find the program did not reduce test scores; likely, it increased them, with …
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Heterogeneity in High Math Achievement Across Schools: Evidence from the American Mathematics Competition
Ellison, Glenn; Swanson, Ashley - CESifo - 2012
achievement. Data from the American Mathematics Competitions is used to produce counts of high-scoring students from more than two … from evenly distributed. There are strong demographic predictors of high achievement. There are also large differences …
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Great Expectations and Hard Times - The (Nontrivial) Impact of Education on Domestic Terrorism
Brockhoff, Sarah; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - CESifo - 2012
This contribution investigates the role of education in domestic terrorism for 133 countries between 1984 and 2007. The findings point at a nontrivial effect of education on terrorism. Lower education (primary education) tends to promote terrorism in a cluster of countries where the...
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The Effects of Test-based Retention on Student Outcomes over Time: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Florida
Schwerdt, Guido; West, Martin R. - CESifo - 2013
time. Although conventional OLS estimates suggest negative effects of retention on achievement, regression discontinuity … estimates indicate large positive effects on achievement and a reduced probability of retention in subsequent years. The … achievement gains from test-based retention fade out over time, however, and are statistically insignificant after six years. …
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Curriculum and Ideology
Cantoni, Davide; Chen, Yuyu; Yang, David Y.; Yuchtman, Noam - CESifo - 2014
We study the causal effect of school curricula on students’ stated beliefs and attitudes. We exploit a major textbook reform in China that was rolled out between 2004 and 2010 with the explicit intention of shaping youths’ ideology. To measure its effect, we present evidence from a novel...
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Why Do We Ignore the Risk in Schooling Decisions?
Hartog, Joop; Diaz-Serrano, Luis - CESifo - 2014
While uncertainty abounds in almost any decision on investment in schooling, it is mostly ignored in research and virtually absent in labour economics text books. This paper documents the scope for risk, discusses the tough disentanglement of heterogeneity and risk, surveys the analytical...
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Analyzing Educational Achievement Differences Between Second-Generation Immigrants: Comparing Germany and German-speaking Switzerland
Kunz, Johannes S. - CESifo - 2014
In this study, I provide evidence that the educational achievement of second-generation immigrants in German …’s educational achievement seems to be much more important than has been recognized by the existing literature. I identify the test …
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The Sources of the Gender Gap in Economics Enrolment
Tonin, Mirco; Wahba, Jackline - CESifo - 2014
In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor’s degree in Economics, arguably an important stepping stone towards positions of influence in policy making and occupations paying relatively high wages. We investigate the sources of this gap by looking in detail...
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Granting Birthright Citizenship - A Door Opener for Immigrant Children's Educational Participation and Success
Felfe, Christina; Saurer, Judith - CESifo - 2014
Does granting birthright citizenship help immigrant children integrating in the host country’s educational system? We address this question using a reform of the German naturalization law in 1999 that entitled children born after January 1, 2000 with birthright citizenship. We use a...
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