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O brother, where start thou? : sibling-spillovers in college enrollment
Goodman, Joshua S.; Hurwitz, Michael; Mulhern, Christine; … - 2019
We study within-family spillovers in college enrollment to show college-going behavior is transmissible between peers …. Because siblings' test scores are weakly correlated, we exploit college-specific admissions thresholds that directly affect … older but not younger siblings' college options. Older siblings' admissibility substantially increases their own four …
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Inefficient school choice in a long-run urban equilibrium
Kamecke, Ulrich - 2014
We model centralized school matching as a second stage of a simple Tiebout-model and show that the two most discussed mechanisms, the deferred acceptance and the Boston algorithm, both produce inefficient outcomes and that the Boston mechanism is more efficient than deferred acceptance. This...
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School choice and loss aversion
Meisner, Vincent; Wangenheim, Jonas von - 2021
Evidence suggests that participants in direct student-proposing deferred-acceptance mechanisms (DA) play dominated strategies. To explain the data, we introduce expectation-based loss aversion into a school-choice setting and characterize choice-acclimating personal equilibria in DA. We find...
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How does reducing the intensity of tracking affect student achievement? : evidence from German state reforms
Piopiunik, Marc - 2021
To investigate the effects of reducing the intensity of tracking, this study exploits reforms across German states which combined the two lower secondary school tracks, sometimes additionally offering the possibility to acquire a university entrance qualification. Using a...
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The effects of free secondary school track choice : a disaggregated synthetic control approach
Osikominu, Aderonke; Pfeifer, Gregor; Strohmaier, Kristina - 2021
We exploit a recent state-level reform in Germany that granted parents the right to decide on the highest secondary school track suitable for their child, changing the purpose of the primary teacher's recommendation from mandatory to informational. Applying a disaggregated synthetic control...
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Gender of siblings and choice of college major
Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2013
In this study we analyze whether the gender composition of siblings within a family affects the choice of College Major … individuals from high school to college graduation. We find that mixed gender siblings within a family tend to choose college …. The question is whether a family environment that is more gender-homogeneous encourages academic choices that are less …
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Family background and the responses to higher SAT scores
Graetz, George; Öckert, Björn; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2020
Using discontinuities within the Swedish SAT system, we show that additional admission opportunities causally affect college choices. Students with high-educated parents change timing, colleges, and fields in ways that appear consistent with basic economic theory. In contrast, very talented...
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Froebel's gifts : how the kindergarten movement changed the American family
Ager, Philipp; Cinnirella, Francesco - 2020
Public educators and philanthropists in the late 19th century United States promoted the establishment of kindergartens in cities as a remedy for the social problems associated with industrialization and immigration. Between 1880 and 1910, more than seven thousand kindergartens opened their...
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Family, community and life-cycle earnings : evidence from siblings and youth peers
Bingley, Paul; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2017
accounts for the joint earnings dynamics of siblings and youth community peers. We are the first to decompose the sibling … correlation of permanent earnings into family and community effects allowing for life-cycle dynamics; finding that family is the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011752512
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O brother, where start thou? : sibling spillovers on college and major choice in four countries
Altmejd, Adam; Barrios-Fernández, Andrés; Drlje, Marin; … - 2020 - Latest version: May 10, 2020
Family and social networks are widely believed to influence important life decisions but identifying their causal … effects is notoriously difficult. Using admissions thresholds that directly affect older but not younger siblings' college … options, we present evidence from the United States, Chile, Sweden and Croatia that older siblings' college and major choices …
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