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Better together? Heterogeneous effects of tracking on student achievement
Matthewes, Sönke Hendrik - 2018
. My results show that decreasing the degree of tracking in early secondary school can reduce inequality while increasing …
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Personality and career: she's got what it takes
Fietze, Simon; Holst, Elke; Tobsch, Verena - 2009
looking at the impact of self-reported personality traits on gender differences in career chances. We compare managers and …-Economic Panel (SOEP) in 2005 show that there are significant gender differences in personality traits, multivariate estimations …, personality traits might indeed play a role, albeit more indirectly: Some of the stronger career effects, such as work experience …
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Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie F.; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2006
This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272279
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Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie F.; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2006
The paper investigates the role of social norms as a determinant of individual attitudes by analyzing risk proclivity reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We employ factor analysis to construct measures of immigrants? ethnic persistence and assimilation....
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Locus of control and mothers' return to employment
Berger, Eva M.; Haywood, Luke - 2016
This paper investigates the effect of locus of control (LOC) on the length of mothers' employment break after childbirth. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), duration data reveals that women with an internal LOC return to employment more quickly than women with an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011483890
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Understanding day care enrolment gaps
Jessen, Jonas; Schmitz, Sophia; Waights, Sevrin - 2019
We document day care enrolment gaps by family background for children under 3 in Germany. Research demonstrates that children of less-educated or foreign-born parents benefit most from day care, making it important to understand the causes of such enrolment gaps. Using a unique data set that...
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Heterogeneous effects of afterschool care on child development
Schmitz, Laura - 2022
It is often argued that institutionalized after-school care (ASC) can benefit children lacking adequate homework support at home and, hence, foster equality of opportunity. However, despite considerable policy interest, it is unclear whether these afternoon programs are beneficial for child...
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Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income
Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Prowse, Victoria - 2017
In this paper, we study how the tax-and-transfer system reduces the inequality of lifetime income by redistributing … offsets around half of the inequality in lifetime earnings that is due to differences in skill endowments. At the same time …, taxes and transfers mitigate around 60% of the inequality in lifetime earnings that is attributable to employment and health …
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Informing students about college: An efficient way to decrease the socio-economic gap in enrollment: Evidence from a randomized field experiment
Peter, Frauke; Spieß, Christa Katharina; Zambre, Vaishali - 2018
Although the proportion of students enrolled in college increased in the last decades, students from non-college family backgrounds remain underrepresented in higher education around the world. This study sheds light on whether the provision of information in a randomized controlled trial with...
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Increased instruction hours and the widening gap in student performance
Huebener, Mathias; Kuger, Susanne; Marcus, Jan - 2016
Do increased instruction hours improve the performance of all students? Using PISA scores of students in ninth grade, we analyse the effect of a German education reform that increased weekly instruction hours by two hours (6.5 percent) overalmost five years. In the additional time, students are...
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