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

Bietenbeck, Jan - 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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Speaking in Numbers : The Effect of Reading Performance on Math Performance Among Immigrants

Isphording, Ingo E.; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2021

This paper is the first to estimate a causal effect of immigrant students’ reading performance on their math performance. To overcome endogeneity issues due to unobserved ability, we apply an IV approach exploiting variation in age-at-arrival and the linguistic distance between origin and...

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Age at School Entry and Intergenerational Educational Mobility

Bauer, Philipp - 2009

We use Swiss data to test whether intergenerational educational mobility is affected by the age at which children first enter (primary) school. Early age at school entry significantly affects mobility and reduces the relative advantage of children of better educated parents

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Weak Markets, Strong Teachers : Recession at Career Start and Teacher Effectiveness

Nagler, Markus - 2015

How do alternative job opportunities affect teacher quality? We provide the first causal evidence on this question by exploiting business cycle conditions at career start as a source of exogenous variation in the outside options of potential teachers. Unlike prior research, we directly assess...

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Apprenticeship, Vocational Training and Early Labor Market Outcomes - In East and West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T. - 2015

We study the returns to apprenticeship and vocational training for three early labor market outcomes all measured at age 25 for East and West German youths: non-employment (i.e., unemployment or out of the labor force), permanent fulltime employment, and wages. We find strong positive effects of...

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Skills, Signals, and Employability : An Experimental Investigation

Piopiunik, Marc - 2018

As skills of labor-market entrants are usually not directly observed by employers, individuals acquire skill signals. To study which signals are valued by employers, we simultaneously and independently randomize a broad range of skill signals on pairs of resumes of fictitious applicants among...

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Central School Exit Exams and Labor-Market Outcomes

Piopiunik, Marc; Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021

Many countries use centralized exit exams as a governance devise of the school system. While abundant evidence suggests positive effects of central exams on achievement tests, previous research on university-bound students shows no effects on subsequent earnings. We suggest that labor-market...

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Why Does Height Matter for Educational Attainment? Evidence from German Pre-Teen Children

Cinnirella, Francesco; Piopiunik, Marc; Winter, Joachim K. - 2021

Several studies have shown that body height is positively associated with educational attainment. In this paper, we investigate the mechanisms behind this relationship using data on German pre-teen students. We show that (i) taller children are more likely to enroll in ‘Gymnasium’, the most...

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The East German Wage Structure after Transition

Orlowski, Robert; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2021

We extend the literature on transition economies' wage structures by investigating the returns to tenure and experience. This study applies recent panel data and estimation approaches that control for hitherto neglected biases. We compare the life cycle structure in East and West German wages...

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The East German Wage Structure after Transition

Orlowski, Robert; Riphahn, Regina T. - CESifo - 2008

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