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Sibling rivalry : a look at Switzerland with PISA data
Wolter, Stefan C.; Coradi Vellacott, Maja - 2002
background. Thus, subgroups of the population seem to be confronted with binding budget constraints, although education is free …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413720
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Children's patience and school-track choices several years later: linking experimental and field data
Angerer, Silvia; Bolvashenkova, Jana; … - 2021
We present direct evidence on the link between children's patience and educational-track choices years later. Combining an incentivized patience measure of 493 primary-school children with their high-school track choices taken at least three years later at the end of middle school, we find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012519178
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Are apprenticeships business cycle proof?
Lüthi, Samuel; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2018
Although there is evidence that apprenticeship training can ease the transition of youth into the labour market and thereby reduce youth unemployment, many policy makers fear that firms will cut their apprenticeship expenditures during economic crises, thus exacerbating the problem of youth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011810037
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Educational inequality and public policy preferences : evidence from representative survey experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018
strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011891763
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The native-migrant gap in the progression into and through upper-secondary education
Wolter, Stefan C.; Zumbuehl, Maria - 2017
progress in uppersecondary education. We observe a substantive difference in the rate of progress between natives and students …-track - entering the second year of uppersecondary 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776016
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The native-migrant gap in the progression into and through upper-secondary Education
Wolter, Stefan C.; Zumbuehl, Maria - 2017
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011780595
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Do natives' beliefs about refugees' education level affect attitudes toward refugees? : evidence from randomized survey experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp; Piopiunik, Marc; Simon, Lisa - 2017
exogenously shifted participants' beliefs about refugees' education level through information provision. Consistent with economic … theory, we find that beliefs about refugees' education significantly affect concerns about labor market competition. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011781996
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Children's patience and school-track choices several years later : linking experimental and field data
Angerer, Silvia; Bolvashenkova, Jana; … - 2021
We present direct evidence on the link between children’s patience and educational-track choices years later. Combining an incentivized patience measure of 493 primary-school children with their high-school track choices taken at least three years later at the end of middle school, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533965
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Educational inequality and public policy preferences : evidence from representative survey experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018
strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011895602
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The E-word - on the public acceptance of experiments
Fischer, Mira; Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2023
Randomized experiments are often viewed as the "gold standard" of scientific evidence, but people's scepticism towards experiments has compromised their viability in the past. We study preferences for experimental policy evaluations in a representative survey in Germany (N1,900). We find that a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014383796