significantly improves students’ reading achievement. Lower-performing student groups – boys, students born abroad, and students …

We study the effects of digital financial education interventions on undergraduate students’ financial knowledge in a … treatment and an incentive-based approach where students are issued pre-paid voucher cards worth 50 EUR to register with a … video treatment enhanced financial knowledge scores by more than 0.5 standard deviations. Conversely, the vouchers showed no …

Teachers differ greatly in how much they teach their students, but little is known about which teacher attributes … account for this. We estimate the causal effect of teacher subject knowledge on student achievement using within …-teacher within-student variation, exploiting a unique Peruvian 6th-grade dataset that tested both students and their teachers in two …

international PISA test (2009). We extend the analyses in two ways and find that students must differ considerably in the time …

conditional progression schemes are effective strategies to select high-performing students. Previous work has mainly focused on …

We study the mechanisms that are associated with the gender education gap and its reversal in Germany. We focus on …

-in-differences framework that exploits the quasi-experimental nature of the German TIMSS middle-school sample. The estimates show that students … in federal states with central exit examinations clearly outperform students in other federal states, but that only part …

This study analyzes the qualitative aspects of emigration from Germany taking account of economic and non …-economic reasons. The reported willingness to emigrate from Germany in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) is explained for men and …