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Did Tuition Fees in Germany Constrain Students' Budgets? New Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2014
Less than a decade ago, several German states introduced tuition fees for university education. Despite their comparatively low level, fees were perceived by the public to increase social injustice, and have been abolished. Whereas other studies have shown no effect on enrollment, we analyze the...
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Stimulating Local Public Employment : Do General Grants Work?
Lundqvist, Heléne - 2010
The effectiveness of public funds in increasing public employment has long been a question on public and labor economists' minds. In most federal countries local governments employ large fractions of the working population, meaning that a tool for stimulating local public employment can...
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Corrupting Learning : Evidence from Missing Federal Education Funds in Brazil
Ferraz, Claudio - 2013
This paper examines if money matters in education by looking at whether missing resources due to corruption affect student outcomes. We use data from the auditing of Brazil's local governments to construct objective measures of corruption involving educational block grants transferred from the...
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Do School Budgets Matter? The Effect of Budget Referenda on Student Performance
Lee, Kyung-Gon - 2014
This paper analyzes how changes in school expenditures affect dropout rates and standardized test scores based on data from 465 school districts in New York during the 2003/04 to the 2008/09 school years. Past traditional regression approaches show inconsistent results of school expenditures...
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Who Chooses Which Private Education? Theory and International Evidence
Bertola, Giuseppe - 2013
Private school students do not always perform better in standardized tests. We suggest that this may be explained by choice of private schooling by less capable students in countries where government schools are better suited to talented students. To assess the empirical relevance of this...
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Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration : The Case of Occupations
Kampelmann, Stephan - 2011
into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s …
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Distributional Consequences of Labor Demand Adjustments to a Downturn : A Model-Based Approach with Application to Germany 2008-09
Bargain, Olivier - 2010
Germany. We take as a starting point a very detailed administrative matched employer-employee dataset to estimate labor demand …
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Parental Risk Attitudes and Children's Secondary School Track Choice
Heineck, Guido - 2010
Germany where tracking occurs at age ten and has a strong binding character. Our results indicate no consistent patterns for …
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Parental Ethnic Identity and Educational Attainment of Second-Generation Immigrants
Schüller, Simone - 2011
A lack of cultural integration is often blamed for hindering immigrant families' economic progression. This paper is a first attempt to explore whether immigrant parents' ethnic identity affects the next generation's human capital accumulation in the host country. Empirical results based on data...
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The Long-Term Direct and External Effects of Jewish Expulsions in Nazi Germany
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude - 2011
This paper provides causal evidence on long-term consequences of Jewish expulsions in Nazi Germany on the educational … residing in Germany before the Nazi Regime with individual survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Our … identification strategy exploits the plausibly exogenous city-by-cohort variation in the Jewish population in Germany as a unique …
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