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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, C. Katharina; Zambre, Vaishali - 2018
Although the proportion of students enrolled in college increased in the last decades, students from non-college family … information in a randomized controlled trial with more than 1,000 German high school students results in higher college enrollment … rates. One year prior to high school graduation, we treated students in randomly selected schools by giving an in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011928550
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Public Employment and the Double Role of Bureaucrats
Dahlberg, Matz; Mörk, Eva - 2005
Bureaucrats in the government sector have a double role since they are both suppliers and demanders of public employment; they are publicly employed (supply labor) and they have an important say in deciding the size of the municipal employment (demand labor). In this paper we present and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321525
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Intergovernmental grants and bureaucratic power
Dahlberg, Matz; Lundqvist, Heléne; Mörk, Eva - 2008
In their role as agenda setters and implementers of political decisions, bureaucrats potentially have the power to influence decisions in their own favor. It is however difficult to empirically test whether bureaucrats actually are involved in such actions. In this paper we suggest and apply a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273940
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To work or not to work? Effects of temporary public employment on future employment and benefits
Mörk, Eva; Ottosson, Lillit; Vikman, Ulrika - 2021
We evaluate a temporary public sector employment program targeted at individuals with weak labor market attachment in the City of Stockholm. Having access to rich high-quality individual-level administrative data, we apply dynamic inverse probability weighting, proposed by Van den Berg and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660628
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Public employment and the double role of bureaucrats
Dahlberg, Matz; Mörk, Eva - 2004
Bureaucrats in the government sector have a double role since they are both suppliers and demanders of public employment; they are publicly employed (supply labor) and they have an important say in deciding the size of the municipal employment (demand labor). In this paper we present and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321100
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Intergovernmental grants and bureaucratic power
Dahlberg, Matz; Lundqvist, Heléne; Mörk, Eva - 2008
In their role as agenda setters and implementers of political decisions, bureaucrats potentially have the power to influence decisions in their own favor. It is however difficult to empirically test whether bureaucrats actually are involved in such actions. In this paper we suggest and apply a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321370
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Does quality of early childhood education and care affect the home learning environment of children?
Kuger, Susanne; Marcus, Jan; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2017
Both, a high quality of the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) setting and a high quality of the home learning environment foster children's development. However, we know little about the interactions between ECEC quality and the home learning environment. We examine whether the child's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011722750
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The importance of mothers-in-law's employment for their daughter-in-law's labour market outcomes in West Germany : results and mechanisms
Schmitz, Sophia; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2021
Social norms have been put forward as prominent explanations for the changing labour supply decisions of women. This paper studies the intergenerational formation of these norms, examining how they affect subsequent female labour supply decisions, taking into account not only the early...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497397
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Financial student aid and enrollment into higher education : new evidence from Germany
Steiner, Viktor (contributor);  … - 2008
discontinuous function of parental income, the effect of BAfoeG on students' enrollment decisions can be identified separately from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003746578
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Die Dauer vorschulischer Betreuungs- und Bildungserfahrungen Ergebnisse auf der Basis von Paneldaten
Büchner, Charlotte (contributor);  … - 2007
Dieser Beitrag geht der Frage nach, welche Faktoren damit in Zusammenhang stehen, wie viele Jahre ein Kind vor Schuleintritt eine Betreuungs- und Bildungseinrichtung besucht und ob die Dauer des Besuchs von Kindertageseinrichtungen mit dem späteren Schultyp in Verbindung steht. Die empirische...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003440215