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The Effect of Early Childhood Language Training Programs on the Contemporary Formation of Grammar Skills

Kamhöfer, Daniel - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014

While there is a big literature on the benefits of pre-school education, only little is known why kindergarten attendance improves later-life outcomes. This is partly because most studies analyze the effect of complete 2 years pre-school programs. In order to shed light into the black box of...

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No longer top of the class: Professorial salaries in the 20th century

Sohn, Alexander - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013

Using individual income data from university archives, we look at the development of professorial salaries over a time-span covering the Kaiserreich, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich as well as the Federal Republic of Germany. We find that relative salaries have fallen dramatically, both...

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Student assessment and grade retention: evidence from a natural experiment

Kimura, Marlies; Ochsen, Carsten - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014

. The reform replaced parents choice about their children s secondary school type by a binding teacher recommendation. Our … capture that with free parental choice, overambitious parents tend to select too demanding tracks for their children. …

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Extracurricular educational programs and school readiness: Evidence from a quasi-experiment with preschool children

Makles, Anna; Schneider, Kerstin - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014

The paper adds to the literature on extracurricular early childhood education and child development by exploiting unique data on an educational project in Germany, the Junior University (JU). By utilizing a quasi-experimental study design we estimate the causal short-term effect of JU enrollment...

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Do university policies matter? Effects of Course Policies on Performance

Ostermaier, Andreas; Beltz, Philipp; Link, Susanne - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013

We benefit from the Bologna reform to show how course and program policies affect academic achievement. We examine two similar programs at the business school of a major European university, which were both reformed. Time lags in the reforms allow us to estimate the difference in the differences...

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Majority Vote on Educational Standards

Schwager, Robert - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013

The direct democratic choice of an examination standard, i.e., a performance level required to graduate, is evaluated against a utilitarian welfare function. It is shown that the median preferred standard is inefficiently low if the marginal cost of reaching a higher performance reacts more...

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Externalities and subsidization of higher education

Winter, Stefan; Pfitztner, Alexander - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013

and the US is less that 30%. Subsidization is typically justified by two arguments: It is necessary to enable children …

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Early life adversity and children's competence development: evidence from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Blomeyer, Dorothea; Coneus, Katja; … - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013

achievement based on data from an epidemiological cohort study following 364 children from birth to adolescence. Results indicate …

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Granting Birthright Citizenship - A Door Opener for Immigrant Children's Educational Participation and Success?

Saurer, Judith; Felfe, Christina - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014

Does granting citizenship at birth help immigrant children to integrate in the host country's educational system and … law in 2000. We exploit this natural experiment and use a difference-in-difference design that compares children born …, Europe's largest household survey. We find positive effects on immigrant children's participation in non-mandatory preschool …

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Students' Wage Expectations in Germany - New Evidence considering Tax Adjusted Estimates

Pfeifer, Gregor; Witte, Stefan - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014

This paper uses a rich dataset derived from a three-year survey to gain insights about the informational background of University applicants. We analyze the extent to which students expectations of their starting and future salary depend on different characteristics. More precisely, the paper...

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