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' prosocial attitudes are systematically related to elementary school children's prosociality. In a second step, we present … evidence on a randomly-assigned variation of the social environment, providing children with a mentor for the duration of one … gap in prosociality between low and high SES children. A mediation analysis of the observed treatment effect suggests that …
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Immigrant children often face educational disadvantages that stem from their parents' decision-making. For example, in … citizenship or not. We find that the policy caused immigrant parents to (i) send their children to preschool more often; (ii … many immigrant-receiving countries, immigrants are less likely than the native-born to enroll their children in preschool …
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This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. Using instrumental variables estimation and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what...
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performance and their labor market income. We exploit the within-school, cohort-by-cohort variation in the gender composition of … high school classmates (peers), after controlling for school and teachers fixed effects. We find that male students … performance and change in major. And in the long run it did not produce any difference in income or labor market outcomes. We do …
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seem more pronounced for women and low-income students. In addition, there is little evidence that the effects of high … access to public universities for students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. A key concern, however, is how these … students will perform. This paper examines the relationship between high school quality and student success at college. Using …
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investigate the mechanisms behind this relationship using data on German pre-teen students. We show that (i) taller children are … better recommendations to taller students. This holds even when controlling for academic achievement and parental background … respect to education policy, our findings suggest that early school tracking might increase disadvantages for students with …
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In this paper, we examine and compare the impact of cultural differences on intergenerational altruism in Turkish people living in Turkey and in Germany, using the anthropological concept of worldview. Data were gathered from four surveys: nationwide surveys in Turkey and Germany, an online...
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This study estimates the effect of compulsory schooling on earnings. For identification, I exploit a German reform that extended the duration of secondary schooling in the 1960s. I find that hourly wages increase by 6%-8% per additional year of schooling. This result challenges prior findings...
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of all college students fail to earn a bachelor's degree, we study a model of risky college completion. The central idea … is that students drop out of college mainly because they fail to complete the requirements for earning a degree. This … introduces two levels of ability selection that reinforce each other. (i) In college, low ability students typically do not …
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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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