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Academic achievement and tracking : a theory based on grading standards

Ehlers, Tim; Schwager, Robert - 2019

knowledge. We show that achievements of low ability students may be higher in a comprehensive school system, even if there are … neither synergy effects nor interdependent preferences among classmates. This arises because the comprehensive school sets a …

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The effect of education on marital status and partner characteristics : evidence from the UK

Anderberg, Dan; Zhu, Yu - 2010

This paper uses a particular school exit rule previously in effect in England and Wales that allowed students born … within the first five months of the academic year to leave school one term earlier than those born later in the year …

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Covid-induced school closures in the US and Germany : long-term distributional effects

Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola - 2022

middle school faced the longest closures. A structural model of human capital accumulation predicts that the US school …

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Closing the gap between vocational and general education? : evidence from University Technical Colleges in England

Machin, Stephen; McNally, Sandra; Terrier, Camille; … - 2020

Some countries, notably those which have long had a weak history of vocational education like the UK and the US, have recently seen a rapid expansion of hybrid schools which provide both general and vocational education. England introduced "University Technical Colleges" (UTCs) in 2010 for...

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Social mobility in Germany

Dodin, Majed; Findeisen, Sebastian; Henkel, Lukas; … - 2021

We characterize intergenerational mobility in Germany using census data on educational attainment and parental income for 526,000 children. Our measure of educational attainment is the A-Level degree, a requirement for access to university. A 10 percentile increase in the parental income rank is...

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Optimal weights for marital sorting measures

Almar, Frederik; Schulz, Bastian - 2023

Changing distributions of male and female types affect the measurement of education-based marriage market sorting. We develop a weighting strategy that minimizes the distortion of sorting measures due to changing type distributions. The optimal weights reflect that female type distributions have...

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The expected (signaling) value of higher education

Ehrmantraut, Laura; Pinger, Pia; Stans, Renske - 2020

This paper explores students' expectations about the returns to completing higher education and provides first evidence on perceived signaling and human capital effects. We elicit counterfactual labor market expectations for the hypothetical scenarios of leaving university with or without a...

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The effects of high school remediation on long-run educational attainment

Özek, Umut - 2025 - This version: May 23, 2025

This study examines the effects of remedial courses in high school on postsecondary outcomes using a regression … an additional remedial course in high school reduces the likelihood of attaining a 2- or 4-year college degree by 20 …, which significantly reduces students’ access to advanced courses in high school not only in the remediation subject but also …

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Job mismatch and early career success

Cullen, Julie Berry; Dahl, Gordon B.; De Thorpe, Richard - 2025

How does being over- or underqualified at the beginning of a worker's career affect skill acquisition, retention, and promotion? Despite the importance of mismatch for the labor market, self-selection into jobs has made estimating these effects difficult. We overcome endogeneity concerns in the...

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Marital sorting and inequality : how educational categorization matters

Almar, Frederik; Friedrich, Benjamin; Reynoso, Ana; … - 2023

This paper revisits the link between education-based marriage market sorting and income inequality. Leveraging Danish administrative data, we develop a novel categorization of marriage market types based on the starting wages and wage growth trajectories associated with educational programs:...

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