-Kindern. Angesichts der starken intergenerationalen Bildungskorrelation birgt das unterdurchschnittliche Bildungsniveau der in Deutschland …

Do increased instruction hours improve the performance of all students? Using PISA scores of students in ninth grade …

produce evidence that suggests that these estimates are significantly upward biased. The bias arises from a general failure in …

bias. The economic sentiment of the media, consumers and firms does not reflect the actual situation. Finally, we find that …

. The observed bias in expectations is irrespective to risk preferences and fairly robust to feedback. It is consistent with … a behavioral model in which geometric growth is confused with linear growth. The bias is a possible explanation of …

This paper explores the implications of possible bias cancellation using Rubin-style matching methods with complete and … the nature of the missing mechanism. While - contrary to published assertions in the literature - bias cancellation does … not generally occur when the multivariate distribution of the errors is symmetric, bias cancellation has been observed to …