, we analyse the effect of a German education reform that increased weekly instruction hours by two hours (6.5 percent …) overalmost five years. In the additional time, students are taught new learning content. On average, the reform improves student …

The previous literature has shown that children who enter school at a more advanced age outperform their younger … classmates on competency tests taken between kindergarten and Grade 10. This study analyzes whether these effects of school … of the long-term causal effects exploits state and year variation in school entry regulations. The results show that …

countries include Austria, Belgium, Germany and Hungary. Low segregation countries include the four Nordic countries and … background in the state school sector. Focusing on this sector, we show that cross-country differences in segregation are … area and Scotland have negligible selection in schools. High segregation countries like Austria, Germany and Hungary have …

The authors apply a computable general equilibrium (CGE) modeling framework to carry out a two-country comparison for … Austria and Germany assessing the impact of road charging (RC). The pricing policy measure is introduced for the private …

In the 2000s, a major educational reform in Germany reduced the academic high school duration by one year while keeping … constant the total number of instructional hours before graduation. The instructional hours from the eliminated school year … shifted to lower grade levels, which increased the time younger students spend at school. This study explores the impact of …

In this paper, we argue that the effect of governance on the emergence of crimes of different levels of sophistication … improved governance. With further improvements in governance criminal activities decline. We find strong and consistent support … of theft from ships the pattern is quadratic: piracy first rises and then falls as governance improves. -- Piracy …

We examine the impact of family income during childhood on the type of secondary school that German children attend, a …

This paper studies the effect of attending a high-quality secondary school on subsequent educational outcomes. The … secondary school choice (between ages 10-12) and later when they self-report on their intentions with regard to their further … significant effects of attending a high-quality school, we cannot rule out that the estimates are not in fact driven by selection …

childcare for preschool aged children. Yet families must continue to arrange childcare once their children enter primary school …, particularly in countries where the school day ends at lunchtime. In this paper we examine the case of Germany, a country that has … moved from an exclusively half-day school system to one where formal afternoon care is increasingly available. We estimate …