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Does Ignorance of Economic Returns and Costs Explain the Educational Aspiration Gap? Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021

The gap in university enrollment by parental education is large and persistent in many countries. In our representative survey, 74 percent of German university graduates, but only 36 percent of those without a university degree favor a university education for their children. The latter are more...

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Sinkendes Leistungsniveau, hohe Chancenungleichheit: Stand und Handlungsoptionen für die deutsche Schulbildung

Freundl, Vera; Pfaehler, Franziska; Schoner, Florian; … - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 103 (2023) 4, pp. 233-237

Bildung spielt eine zentrale Rolle für die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung eines Landes, daher hat die Ampelregierung im Koalitionsvertrag diverse Vorhaben in der Bildungspolitik angekündigt. Neben dem DigitalPakt Schule, der die digitale Infrastruktur an Schulen verbessern soll, sollen das...

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Educational Inequality and Public Policy Preferences : Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp - 2018

To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality strongly increases concerns about educational...

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Das Wissenskapital der Nationen: gute Bildung als Wachstumsmotor

Woessmann, Ludger - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 97 (2017) Sonderheft, pp. 38-42

- the 'knowledge capital' of a nation - can be measured well by international math and science tests. The consideration of … knowledge capital can completely account for the Latin American growth puzzle and the East Asian growth miracle. Several … run growth ultimately has to rest on the knowledge capital of nations. To further long run prosperity, policies should …

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General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes Over the Life-Cycle

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2011

Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test...

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Does Parental Education Affect Fertility? Evidence from Pre-Demographic Transition Prussia

Becker, Sascha O. - 2011

While women's employment opportunities, relative wages, and the child quantity‐quality trade‐off have been studied as factors underlying historical fertility limitation, the role of parental education has received little attention. We combine Prussian county data from three censuses - 1816,...

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Surfing Alone? The Internet and Social Capital - Evidence from an Unforeseeable Technological Mistake

Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2014

Does the Internet undermine social capital or facilitate inter-personal and civic engagement in the real world? Merging unique telecommunication data with geo-coded German individual-level data, we investigate how broadband Internet affects several dimensions of social capital. One...

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Economic Gains for U.S. States from Educational Reform

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2016

There is limited existing evidence justifying the economic case for state education policy. Using newly-developed measures of the human capital of each state that allow for internal migration and foreign immigration, we estimate growth regressions that incorporate worker skills. We find that...

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Vocational vs. General Education and Employment Over the Life-Cycle : New Evidence from PIAAC

Hampf, Franziska - 2016

It has been argued that vocational education facilitates the school-to-work transition but reduces later adaptability to changing environments. Using the recent international PIAAC data, we confirm such a trade-off over the life-cycle in a difference-in-differences model that compares employment...

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Human Capital Quality and Aggregate Income Differences : Development Accounting for U.S. States

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2015

Although many U.S. state policies presume that human capital is important for state economic development, there is little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to international studies of income differences, we investigate the extent to which quality-adjusted...

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