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Mentoring and schooling decisions : causal evidence
Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia - 2020
Inequality of opportunity strikes when two children with the same academic performance are sent to diff erent quality schools because their parents di ffer in socio-economic status. Based on a novel dataset for Germany, we demonstrate that children are signi ficantly less likely to enter the...
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Education inequality
Blanden, Jo; Doepke, Matthias; Stuhler, Jan - 2022
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War all die Aufregung umsonst? : über die Auswirkung der Einführung von Studiengebühren auf die Studienbereitschaft in Deutschland
Baier, Tina; Helbig, Marcel - 2011
Dem vorliegenden Beitrag liegt die Forschungsfrage zugrunde, ob Studienberechtigte in Deutschland durch Studiengebühren von einem Studium abgehalten werden. Diese Fragestellung ist aus mindestens zwei Aspekten relevant: Erstens gibt es bislang nur wenige Arbeiten, die, bezogen auf die...
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Heterogeneous responses to school track choice : evidence from the repeal of binding track recommendations
Bach, Maximilian - 2021
This paper studies heterogeneity in schooling decisions by socio-economic status (SES) in response to a repeal of achievement-based admissions requirements (i.e. binding track recommendations) in Germany's between-school tracking system. The main contribution is to show that while previously...
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Risk, time pressure, and selection effects
Kocher, Martin; Schindler, David; Trautmann, Stefan T.; … - 2018
Time pressure is a central aspect of economic decision making nowadays. It is therefore natural to ask how time … pressure affects decisions, and how to detect individual heterogeneity in the ability to successfully cope with time pressure …. In the context of risky decisions, we ask whether a person's performance under time pressure can be predicted by …
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Explaining cross-racial differences in the educational gender gap
Aucejo, Esteban - 2013
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Benefit salience and labour supply
Spittal, Peter - 2022
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Income contingency and the electorate's support for tuition
Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2022
We show that the electorate’s preferences for using tuition to finance higher education strongly depend on the design of the payment scheme. In representative surveys of the German electorate (N18,000), experimentally replacing regular upfront by deferred income-contingent payments increases...
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The lag from monetary policy actions to inflation : Friedman revisited
Batini, Nicoletta; Nelson, Edward - 2002
This paper updates and extends Friedman's (1972) evidence on the lag between monetary policy actions and the response of inflation. Our evidence is based on UK and US data for the period 1953 2001 on money growth rates, inflation, and interest rates, as well as annual data on money growth and...
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Timing of international market entry of UK and German high-tech start-ups
Bürgel, Oliver (contributor) - 2001
. The results indicate that the incidence of internationalization increases over time. For the majority of new firms the …
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