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Can mentoring alleviate family disadvantage in adolescence? : a field experiment to improve labor-market prospects
Resnjanskij, Sven; Ruhose, Jens; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2021
We study a mentoring program that aims to improve the labor-market prospects of school-attending adolescents from … dimensions that are highly predictive of adolescents´ later labor-market success: math grades, patience/social skills, and labor …-market orientation. For low-SES adolescents, the one-to-one mentoring increases a combined index of the outcomes by half a standard …
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Mentoring and schooling decisions : causal evidence
Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia - 2020
-intensity mentoring program can improve long-run education outcomes of low SES children and reduce inequality of opportunity. Low SES … mentoring relationship aff ects both parents and children and has positive long-term implications for children's educational …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012794438
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Explaining gaps in educational transitions between migrant and native school leavers
Zimmermann, Markus - 2019
This paper analyzes the reasons for the large and persistent gaps in transitions after secondary school between native pupils compared to second- and third generation immigrant pupils in Germany. I first document that differences in parental background, skills (such as school degrees or test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012033803
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Educational inequality and public policy preferences : evidence from representative survey experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018
To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality strongly increases concerns about educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011905178
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The legacy of Covid-19 in education
Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021
If school closures and social-distancing experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic impeded children’s skill development, they may leave a lasting legacy in human capital. To understand the pandemic’s effects on school children, this paper combines a review of the emerging international...
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Preferred field of study and academic performance
Berlingieri, Francesco; Diegmann, André; Sprietsma, Maresa - 2022
This paper investigates the impact of studying the first-choice university subject on dropout and switching field of study for a cohort of students in Germany. Using detailed survey data, and employing an instrumental variable strategy based on variation in the local field of study availability,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013266282
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Does ignorance of economic returns and costs explain the educational aspiration gap? : evidence from representative survey experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018
The gap in university enrollment by parental education is large and persistent in many countries. In our representative survey, 74 percent of German university graduates, but only 36 percent of those without a university degree favor a university education for their children. The latter are more...
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Additional career assistance and educational outcomes for students in lower track secondary schools
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Licklederer, Stefanie - 2017
Based on local policy variation, this paper estimates the causal effect of additional career assistance on educational 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011705487
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Productivity and youth engagement in Brazil : assessing schooling and labor market decisions
Franca, Maíra; Foguel, Miguel Nathan; Costa, Joana Simões - 2019
Household Sample Survey (Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios – PNAD), 1995-2015, to describe youth condition according …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012061809