education, the grade point average is unaffected and the likelihood of completing a Middle Track Secondary School degree falls …

on the conceptual framework of an education production function, we cover evidence on child, parent, and school inputs …

Our study focuses on the gender gap in college aspirations and enrolment among high school students in Germany. We … build on socialisation theory, rational choice theory, and formal restrictions to college access to explain gender … students in Germany, we find that women are equally interested in pursuing higher education as their male counterparts. They …

The German education system is characterized by strong social inequalities in university access. These may be reduced …, whether it reduces educational inequalities at the transition from school to higher education, and how educational …

evidence that these findings have implications for the effectiveness of gender quotas. …

-achieving students. The reduction in learning time was not larger for children from lower-educated parents, but it was larger for boys … than for girls. For policy, our findings suggest binding distance-teaching concepts particularly targeted at low-achievers. …