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particular, German policy makers, pedagogues, parents, and teachers have since long discussed whether the traditional … consideration of a particular child's competency for school (Schulfähigkeit) have been suggested. Using a dataset capturing children …
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participation in societal life resemble more those of native Germans than those of their parents' generation …
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The German practice of compelling weak students to repeat a class has come under heavy criticism recently. Many …
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Data from 31 countries participating in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is used to estimate education production functions for reading literacy. The Analysis suggests that the probability of finding statistically significant and correctly signed class size effects...
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students participating in this standardized test performed considerably below the OECD average and substantially worse than … comprehensive econometric analysis of the association of the individual-level reading test scores of German students with individual … too much regulation of schools or the substantial share of non-citizens among the participating students, are by no means …
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other school quality measures on students' outcomes. This paper analyses the effect of achievement heterogeneity and …
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This paper offers a descriptive portrait of income poverty among children in Germany between the early 1980s and 2001 … part these changes are due to increasing poverty among children from households headed by non-citizens. Children in single …
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This paper analyses the duration of child poverty in Germany. In our sample, we observe the entire income history from … for the entire population of children, whether they become poor at least once or not. Using duration models, we allow …
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