This paper considers a fundamental question about the school environment - what are the long run effects of a student's ordinal rank in elementary school? Using administrative data from all public school students in Texas, we show that students with a higher third grade academic rank,...

We show that in school systems with grade retention or redshirting, birth cohort size is negatively related to the grade-level share of students who are too old for their grade. This compositional effect gives rise to an upward bias in estimates of class size effects based on commonly used...

In der vorliegenden Studie wurden erstmals für alle deutschen öffentlichen Schulen mit einem Grundschulteil die Kinderarmutsquoten für die Grundschuleinzugsgebiete berechnet. Auf Grundlage der Ergebnisse konnte bestimmt werden wo in Deutschland die Schulen mit der höchsten Kinderarmutsquoten...

Do women invest differently than men? We contribute to the answer of this question by analysing the Panel on Household Finances (PHF) of the German Bundesbank. This representative panel collects a wide variety of behavioural and financial variables in the area of household finance. We find that...