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Heterogeneous responses to school track choice : evidence from the repeal of binding track recommendations
Bach, Maximilian - 2021
main contribution is to show that while previously ineligible high-SES students are relatively more likely to enroll in the … highest (academic) track than comparable low-SES students after the repeal, the SES gap in academic track enrollment does not … increase. The reason is that low-SES students, who were already eligible for the academic track before the repeal, increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012794438
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Expected future earnings, taxation, and university enrollment : a microeconometric model with uncertainty
Fossen, Frank M.; Glocker, Daniela - 2009
Taxation changes the expectations of prospective university students about their future level and uncertainty of after …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003889498
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Additional career assistance and educational outcomes for students in lower track secondary schools
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Licklederer, Stefanie - 2017
outcomes for students in Lower Track Secondary Schools in Germany. We find mostly insignificant effects of the treatment on … average outcomes, which mask quite heterogeneous effects. For those students, who are taking extra coursework to continue …. In contrast, educational outcomes improve for students who do not take extra coursework. Hence, the treatment causes a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011705487
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Measuring science : performance metrics and the allocation of talent
Hager, Sebastian; Schwarz, Carlo; Waldinger, Fabian - 2023
We study how performance metrics affect the allocation of talent. We exploit the introduction of a new measure of scientific performance: citation metrics. For technical reasons, the first citation database only covered citations from certain journals and years. Thus, only a subset of citations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014492156
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Social mobility in Germany
Dodin, Majed; Findeisen, Sebastian; Henkel, Lukas; … - 2021
We characterize intergenerational mobility in Germany using census data on educational attainment and parental income for 526,000 children. Our measure of educational attainment is the A-Level degree, a requirement for access to university. A 10 percentile increase in the parental income rank is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013190822
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Paths to higher office: Evidence from the Swedish civil service
Brösamle, Klaus J.; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2011
The paper analyzes the relationship between career path characteristics of civil servants and their career success. Following a description of the institutional setting and some qualitative evidence on typical paths to the top, we use data that follows the careers of all Swedish civil servants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321122
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Educational policy and intergenerational income mobility: Evidence from the Finnish comprehensive school reform
Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Pekkala, Sari; Uusitalo, Roope - 2006
This paper estimates the effect of a major education reform on the intergenerational income mobility in Finland. The Finnish comprehensive school reform of 1972-1977 replaced the old two-track school system with a uniform nine-year comprehensive school and significantly reduced the degree of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317949
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Nowcasting the impact of COVID-19 on education, intergenerational mobility and earnings inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa
Neidhöfer, Guido; Lustig, Nora; Larroulet, Patricio - 2022 - This version: June 2022
Using microsimulations, we nowcast the impact of learning losses caused by COVID-19 on secondary school completion rates, intergenerational mobility of education, and long-run earnings inequality in eight countries Sub-Saharan Africa. On average, secondary school completion rates decrease by 12...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013275358
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First Palestinian Intifada and intergenerational transmission of human capital
Hallaq, Sameh - 2020
year 2012/13 for students between grade 5 and grade 9 in West Bank schools. Overall, the results support the hypothesis of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012610193
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Risk and returns to educational fields : a financial asset approach to vocational and academic education
Glocker, Daniela; Storck, Johanna - 2012 - This version: August 29, 2012
Applying a financial assets approach, we analyze the returns and earnings risk of investments into different types of human capital. Even though the returns from investing in human capital are extensively studied, little is known about the properties of the returns to different types of human...
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