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Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment in Germany: The Last Five Decades

Heineck, Guido; Riphahn, Regina T. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

Over the last decades the German education system underwent numerous reforms in order to improve "equality of opportunity", i.e. to guarantee all pupils equal access to higher education. At the same time internationally comparative evidence yields that Germany features particularly low...

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Enrolment into Higher Education and Changes in Repayment Obligations of Student Aid: Microeconometric Evidence for Germany

Baumgartner, Hans J.; Steiner, Viktor - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004

We evaluate the effect of the federal students' financial assistance scheme (BAfoeG) on enrolment rates into higher education by exploiting the exogenous variation introduced through a discrete shift in the repayment regulations. Supported students had to repay the full loan until 1990....

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Financial Student Aid and Enrollment into Higher Education: New Evidence from Germany

Steiner, Viktor; Wrohlich, Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

We estimate the elasticity of enrollment into higher education with respect to the amount of means tested student aid (BAfoeG) provided by the federal government using the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP). Potential student aid is derived on the basis of a detailed taxbenefit microsimulation...

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Does More Generous Student Aid Increase Enrolment Rates into Higher Education?: Evaluating the German Student Aid Reform of 2001

Baumgartner, Hans J.; Steiner, Viktor - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

Students from low-income families are eligible to student aid under the federal students' financial assistance scheme (BAfoeG) in Germany. We evaluate the effectiveness of a recent reform of student aid that substantially increased the amount received by eligible students to raise enrolment...

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Entry Regulation and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Evidence from a German Natural Experiment

Rostam-Afschar, Davud - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

The amendment to the German Trade and Crafts Code in 2004 offers a natural experiment to asses the causal effects of this reform on the probabilities of being self-employed and transition into and out of self-employment, using cross-sections (2002-2006) of German microcensus data. This study...

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Moving up a Gear: The Impact of Compressing Instructional Time into Fewer Years of Schooling

Huebener, Mathias; Marcus, Jan - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015

fundamental education reform in Germany tackles this trade-off by reducing high school by one year while leaving the total … instructional time unchanged. Employing administrative data on all high school graduates in 2002-2013 in Germany, we exploit both … that compressing the high school track by one year reduces the mean high school graduation age by about 10 months. The …

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Expected Future Earnings, Taxation, and University Enrollment: A Microeconometric Model with Uncertainty

Fossen, Frank M.; Glocker, Daniela - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

, in which a high-school graduate decides to enter university studies if expected lifetime utility from this choice is … variance of net income for German high-school graduates, using only information available to those graduates at the time of the …-adjusted returns to an academic education increase the probability of university enrollment. Second, high-school graduates are …

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Do Tuition Fees Affect the Mobility of University Applicants?: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Dwenger, Nadja; Storck, Johanna; Wrohlich, Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

(baseline: 69%) for high-school graduates who come from a state with tuition fees. Moreover, we find that students with lower … high-school grades react more strongly to tuition fees. This might have important effects on the composition of students …

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Endogenous Distribution, Politics and Growth

Das, Satya; Ghate, Chetan - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002

This paper generalizes the analysis of distributive conflict, politics, and growth developed by by Alesina-Rodrik (1994). We construct a heterogenous-agent framework in which both growth and the distribution of wealth are endogenous. Due to adjustments in the distribution of wealth, the...

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Remittances and Children's Capabilities: New Evidence from Kyrgyzstan, 2005-2008

Kröger, Antje; Anderson, Kathryn - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

and health. Our outcomes include enrollment in school and preschool, expenditures, stunting and wasting of preschool … enrollments were higher in the urban north but secondary school enrollments were lower in other regions in remittance receiving …

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