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Does money buy higher schooling? : evidence from secondary school track choice in Germany

Tamm, Marcus (contributor) - 2007

The German schooling system selects children into different secondary school tracks already at a very early stage in … secondary schooling achievements display a strong correlation with parental income.We use sibling fixed effects models and … information on a natural experiment in order to analyze whether this correlation is due to a causal effect of income or due to …

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The effect of age at school entry on educational attainment in Germany

Fertig, Michael (contributor); Kluve, Jochen (contributor) - 2005

particular, German policy makers, pedagogues, parents, and teachers have since long discussed whether the traditional … children who entered school in the late 1960s through the late 1970s, a time when delaying enrolment was common, we investigate …

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What can we learn from international student performance studies? : Some methodological remarks

Fertig, Michael (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

The determinants which are decisive for a successful accumulation of human capital and the transfer of these skills into the labor market are a contentious issue in the literature on the economics of education. Different studies on, for instance, the impact of school resources typically reach...

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Sheepskin effects in Japan

Bauer, Thomas K. (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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The societal integration of immigrants in Germany

Fertig, Michael (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Assessing the performance of matching algorithms when selection into treatment is strong

Augurzky, Boris (contributor); Kluve, Jochen (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

This paper investigates the method of matching regarding two crucial implementation choices, the distance measure and the type of algorithm. We implement optimal full matching - a fully efficient algorithm - and present a framework for statistical inference. The implementation uses data from the...