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Educational inequality after high school graduation - there is a way to change that : an inquiry into the effectiveness of an intensive counseling program 1.5 years after high scho...

Erdmann, Melinda; Pietrzyk, Irena Magdalena; Schneider, … - 2022

The German education system is characterized by strong social inequalities in university access. These may be reduced by offering individual counseling sessions to students in their final two years of high school. The study "Zukunftsund Berufspläne nach dem Abitur" (ZuBAb)1 examines how such...

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Class rank and long-run outcomes

Denning, Jeffrey T.; Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix - 2018

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,...

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Long-term effects of the Paraguayan War (1864 – 1870) : from male scarcity to intimate partner violence

Boggiano, Barbara - 2020

This paper investigates the long-term effects of the Paraguayan War (1864–1870) on intimate partner violence. The … military camps during the war. Over 130 years later, the likelihood of intimate partner violence is still 5.54 percent higher … than average in municipalities that were more heavily affected by the war. The loss of life among men led to female …

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Unemployment and domestic violence : theory and evidence

Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan; … - 2013

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The long-run labour market consequences of teenage motherhood in Britain

Chevalier, Arnaud (contributor); … - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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School indiscipline and crime

Beatton, Tony; Kidd, Michael P.; Sandi, Matteo - 2020

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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 disadvantaged families by offering them a university-student mentor. Our RCT investigates program effectiveness on three outcome dimensions that are highly predictive of...

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Larrikin youth : new evidence on crime and schooling

Beatton, Tony; Kidd, Michael P.; Machin, Stephen; … - 2016

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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...

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Home alone : widows' well-being and time

Adena, Maja; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Myck, Michał; … - 2021

Losing a partner is a life-changing experience. We draw on numerous datasets to examine differences between widowed and partnered older women and to provide a comprehensive picture of well-being in widowhood. Most importantly, our analysis accounts for time use in widowhood, an aspect which has...

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