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We analyze the causal effect of education on old-age cognitive abilities using German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data and regional variation in mandatory years of schooling and the supply of schools. Our outcome variable is the score an individual reaches in an ultra-short intelligence test. We...
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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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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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children in Germany. We exploit the introduction of birthright citizenship for newborn children in Germany starting on the 1st … of January, 2000, to obtain difference-in-differences estimates for the effect of citizenship on the children s … children to enter the middle school track rather than the lower one. This suggests that growing up with the citizenship of the …
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Given a severe nurse shortage in Switzerland, this paper investigates Swiss students choice for nursing college education and the impact of their ex ante wage expectations on college enrolment. The analysis contributes to a small developing literature that uses subjective wage expectation data...
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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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This study analyzes the effect of education on the number of children, childlessness, and the timing of the first birth …
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In Germany, due to special rules 15- to 24-year-old welfare recipients, registered with Public Employment Office, are highly targeted by mandatory activation policies. This paper investigates the effects of the special rules in terms of enhancing the (re-)employment probability, increasing...
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In course of the ''Hartz IV'' reform implementation in January 2005, Germany has tightened unemployment benefit sanctions. In addition, the regulations with respect to job offer acceptance have been strengthened radically. As non-compliant behavior is supposed to entail benefit sanctions, we...
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Bringing welfare recipients into jobs is a major goal of German labour market policy since a reform of the year 2005. Direct job creation providing participants with tem-porary subsidized jobs mainly in the non-profit sector plays an important role for achieving this goal. There are three...
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