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The Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive Skills: An Investigation of the Causal Impact of Families on Student Outcomes

Hanushek, Eric A.; Jacobs, Babs; Schwerdt, Guido; van … - 2021

The extensive literature on intergenerational mobility highlights the importance of family linkages but fails to provide credible evidence about the underlying family factors that drive the pervasive correlations. We employ a unique combination of Dutch survey and registry data that links math...

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Can Mentoring Alleviate Family Disadvantage in Adolscence? A Field Experiment to Improve Labor-Market Prospects

Resnjanskij, Sven; Ruhose, Jens; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2021

We study a mentoring program that aims to improve the labor-market prospects of school-attending adolescents from disadvantaged families by offering them a university-student mentor. Our RCT investigates program effectiveness on three outcome dimensions that are highly predictive of...

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Does Information about Inequality and Discrimination in Early Child Care Affect Policy Preferences?

Hermes, Henning; Lergetporer, Philipp; Mierisch, Fabian; … - 2024

We investigate public preferences for equity-enhancing policies in access to early child care, using a survey experiment with a representative sample of the German population (n ≈ 4,800). We observe strong misperceptions about migrant-native inequalities in early child care that vary by...

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Do Role Models Matter in Large Classes? New Evidence on Gender Match Effects in Higher Education

Maurer, Stephan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon - 2023

We study whether female students benefit from being taught by female professors, and whether such gender match effects differ by class size. We use administrative records of a German public university, covering all programs and courses between 2006 and 2018. We find that gender match effects on...

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Africa's Skill Tragedy: Does Teachers' Lack of Knowledge Lead to Low Student Performance?

Bietenbeck, Jan; Piopiunik, Marc; Wiederhold, Simon - 2015

Student performance in Sub-Saharan Africa is tragically low. We study the importance of teacher subject knowledge for …. After measurement-error correction, a one-standard-deviation increase in teacher subject knowledge raises student … teacher sorting. Furthermore, teacher knowledge and school resources appear to be complements in student learning. …

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The Effects of Graduating from High School in a Recession: College Investments, Skill Formation, and Labor-Market Outcomes

Hampf, Franziska; Piopiunik, Marc; Wiederhold, Simon - 2020

We investigate the short- and long-term effects of economic conditions at high-school graduation as a source of exogenous variation in the labor-market opportunities of potential college entrants. Exploiting business cycle fluctuations across birth cohorts for 28 developed countries, we find...

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Behavioral Barriers and the Socioeconomic Gap in Child Care Enrollment

Hermes, Henning; Lergetporer, Philipp; Peter, Frauke; … - 2021

Children with lower socioeconomic status (SES) tend to benefit more from early child care, but are substantially less likely to be enrolled. We study whether reducing behavioral barriers in the application process increases enrollment in child care for lower-SES children. In our RCT in Germany...

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Individualism, Human Capital Formation, and Labor Market Success

Hartinger, Katharina; Resnjanskij, Sven; Ruhose, Jens; … - 2021

There is an ongoing debate about the economic effects of individualism. We establish that individualism leads to better educational and labor market outcomes. Using data from the largest international adult skill assessment, we identify the effects of individualism by exploiting variation...

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The Value of Early-Career Skills

Langer, Christina; Wiederhold, Simon - 2023

We develop novel measures of early-career skills that are more detailed, comprehensive, and labor-market-relevant than existing skill proxies. We exploit that skill requirements of apprenticeships in Germany are codified in state-approved, nationally standardized apprenticeship plans. These...

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Why Is the Roy-Borjas Model Unable to Predict International Migrant Selection on Education? Evidence from Urban and Rural Mexico

Leopold, Stefan; Ruhose, Jens; Wiederhold, Simon - 2023

The Roy-Borjas model predicts that international migrants are less educated than nonmigrants because the returns to education are generally higher in developing (migrant-sending) than in developed (migrant-receiving) countries. However, empirical evidence often shows the opposite. Using the case...

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