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The treatment effect of attending a high-quality school and the influence of unobservables : conference paper
Freier, Ronny; Storck, Johanna - 2013
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010340610
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Childhood family structure and schooling outcomes : evidence for Germany
Francesconi, Marco (contributor);  … - 2006
We analyse the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common unobserved determinants of family structure and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003353635
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The effect of increasing education efficiency on university enrollment : evidence from administrative data and an unusual schooling reform in Germany
Marcus, Jan; Zambre, Vaishali - 2016
reform in Germany reduced the length of academic high school while simultaneously increasing the instruction hours in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011552986
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Moving up a gear : the impact of compressing instructional time into fewer years of schooling
Huebener, Mathias; Marcus, Jan - 2015 - This version: February 10, 2015
fundamental education reform in Germany tackles this trade-off by reducing high school by one year while leaving the total … instructional time unchanged. Employing administrative data on all high school graduates in 2002-2013 in Germany, we exploit both … that compressing the high school track by one year reduces the mean high school graduation age by about 10 months. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010479928
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Enrolment into higher education and changes in repayment obligations of student aid : microeconometric evidence for Germany
Baumgartner, Hans J. (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
We evaluate the effect of the federal students' financial assistance scheme (BAfoeG) on enrolment rates into higher education by exploiting the exogenous variation introduced through a discrete shift in the repayment regulations. Supported students had to repay the full loan until 1990....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002243173
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Ganztagsschulen und Erwerbsbeteiligung von Müttern : eine Mikrosimulationsstudie für Deutschland
Beblo, Miriam (contributor); Lauer, Charlotte (contributor);  … - 2005
Der Ausbau von Ganztagsschulen genießt derzeit u.a. auf Grund des schlechten Abschneidens deutscher Schüler bei der PISA-Studie hohe Priorität in der politischen Agenda. In diesem Beitrag soll untersucht werden, wie sich der Ausbau von Ganztagsschulen auf die Erwerbsbeteiligung von Müttern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003230715
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The effect of peer observation on consumption choices : experimental evidence
Grohmann, Antonia; Sakha, Sahra - 2015
This paper investigates the impact of peer observation on the consumption decisions of rural households in Thailand using a lab-in-the-field experiment. We find that those groups that observe each other show lower within group standard deviation in their decisions. Thus, we find evidence for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392209
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Peer effects in parental leave decisions
Welteke, Clara; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2016
This paper analyzes to what extent parental leave decisions of mothers with young children depend on the decisions made by their coworkers. The identification of peer effects, which are defined as indirect effects of the behavior of a social reference group on individual outcomes, bears various...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011525908
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The effect of social comparison on debt taking : experimental evidence
Grohmann, Antonia; Koch, Melanie - 2022
A number of studies show that there is a link between social comparison and high levels of household debt. However, the exact mechanisms behind this link are not yet well understood. In this paper, we disentangle two mechanisms by performing a lab experiment designed to study the effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012816002
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The effect of peer observation on consumption choices experimental evidence
Grohmann, Antonia; Sakha, Sahra - 2015 - Updated version
This paper investigates the impact of peer observation on consumption decisions of rural households in Thailand using a lab-in-the-field experiment. We find that observing groups show lower within group standard deviation. Thus, we provide evidence for conformity. Further, we find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012041128