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Repeated Selection with Heterogenous Individuals and Relative Age Effects
Dawid, Herbert; Mühlheusser, Gerd - CESifo - 2012
In contexts such as education and sports, skill-accumulation of individuals over time crucially depends on the amount …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010542014
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The Lasting Effects of Maternal Net Nutrition During US Economic Development
Carson, Scott A. - 2016
When traditional measures for economic welfare are scarce or unreliable, stature and the body mass index (BMI) are now widely-accepted measures that reflect economic conditions. However, little work exists for late 19th and early 20th century women's BMIs in the US and how they varied with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012994194
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Much Ado About Nothing? The Role of Primary School Catchment Areas for Ethnic School Segregation. Evidence from a Policy Reform
Makles, Anna; Schneider, Kerstin - 2021
By the 2008/09 school year the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) abolished binding school catchment areas (SCAs) in all municipalities. The reform has been controversial and it was feared that school choice would increase ethnic segregation. Using data on all primary schools, we...
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Much Ado about Nothing? The Role of Primary School Catchment Areas for Ethnic School Segregation. Evidence from a Policy Reform
Makles, Anna; Schneider, Kerstin - CESifo - 2013
By the 2008/09 school year the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) abolished binding school catchment areas (SCAs) in all municipalities. The reform has been controversial and it was feared that school choice would increase ethnic segregation. Using data on all primary schools, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010723524
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013018220
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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 … university education for their children. The latter are more likely to underestimate returns and overestimate costs of university …
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The Effects of Tuition Fees on Transition from High School to University in Germany
Bruckmeier, Kerstin - 2013
This paper studies whether the introduction of tuition fees at public universities in some German states had a negative effect on enrollment, i.e., on the transition of high school graduates to public universities in Germany. In contrast to recent studies, we do not find a significant effect on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013081703
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Women's Education and Family Behavior: Trends in Marriage, Divorce and Fertility
Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - CESifo - 2010
women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed … marital patterns by education for men. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572535
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Do Employers Discriminate Less if Vacancies are Difficult to Fill? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Baert, Stijn - 2013
We empirically test the relationship between hiring discrimination and labour market tightness at the level of the occupation. To this end, we conduct a correspondence test in the youth labour market. In line with theoretical expectations, we find that, compared to natives, candidates with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086979
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The Native-Migrant Gap in the Progression into and Through Upper-Secondary Education
Wolter, Stefan C. - 2018
progress in upper-secondary education. We observe a substantive difference in the rate of progress between natives and students …-track - entering the second year of upper-secondary education - is 15 percentage points. Observable differences in cognitive and non …-cognitive skills can explain the gap in the success rate within upper-secondary education, but cannot fully explain the difference in …
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