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Analyzing Educational Achievement Differences between Second-Generation Immigrants : Comparing Germany and German-Speaking Switzerland
Kunz, Johannes - 2014
In this study, I provide evidence that the educational achievement of second-generation immigrants in German-speaking Switzerland is greater than in Germany. The impact of the first-generation immigrants' destination decision on their offspring's educational achievement seems to be much more...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908788
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Performance of Young Adults : The Importance of Different Skills
Falch, Torberg - 2013
This paper uses teacher assessments at age 16 in Norwegian comprehensive schools to measure different types of skills. While we follow the literature and interpret test scores in Mathematics and Science as proxy for cognitive skills, we use a novel measure for another type of skills: Performance...
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Can't Buy Mommy's Love? Universal Childcare and Children's Long-Term Cognitive Development
Felfe, Christina - 2013
What happens to children's long-run cognitive development when introducing universal high-quality childcare for 3-year olds mainly crowds out maternal care? To answer this question we exploit a natural experiment framework and employ a difference-in-difference approach. We find sizable...
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Screening Through Activation : Differential Effects of a Youth Activation Programme
Hall, Caroline - 2017
theoretic framework. Utilizing an RD design, we analyse responses to a nationwide Swedish youth activation program. We find that …
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The Impact of Financial Education on Adolescents' Intertemporal Choices
Lührmann, Melanie - 2018
We study the impact of financial education on intertemporal choice in adolescence. The educational program was randomly assigned among high-school students and choices were measured using an incentivized experiment. Students who participated in the program make more time-consistent choices; are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012937819
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Teenage Pregnancies and Births in Germany : Patterns and Developments
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2014
We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP) and from the German Mikrozensus. Following the international literature we derive hypotheses on the patterns of teenage fertility and test whether they are relevant in the...
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Corruption and Political Stability : Does the Youth Bulge Matter?
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2016
This study shows that the relative size of the youth bulge matters for how corruption affects the internal stability of … with a relatively large youth population. Using panel data covering the 2002-2012 period for more than 100 countries, we … find a negative interaction effect between the relative size of the youth population and corruption on internal political …
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More Opportunity, More Cooperation? The Behavioral Effects of Birthright Citizenship on Immigrant Youth
Felfe, Christina - 2018
citizenship on January 1, 2000—in terms of inter-group cooperation and social segregation between immigrant and native youth. We … rights around its cut-off date. Immigrant youth born prior to the reform display high levels of cooperation toward other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012916957
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Better Together? Social Networks in Truancy and the Targeting of Treatment
Bennett, Magdalena - 2018
Truancy correlates with many risky behaviors and adverse outcomes. We use detailed administrative data on by-class absences to construct social networks based on students who miss class together. We simulate these networks and use permutation tests to show that certain students systematically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012925253