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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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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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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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Do Guns Displace Books? The Impact of Compulsory Military Service on Educational Attainment

Bauer, Thomas K. - 2011

regulations associated with the introduction of conscription in Germany in 1956. We estimate conscription to increase the …

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The Effects of 9/11 on Attitudes Toward Immigration and the Moderating Role of Education

Schüller, Simone - 2012

The major event of the 9/11 terror attacks is likely to have induced an increase in anti-immigrant and anti-foreigner sentiments, not only among US residents but also beyond US borders. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and exploiting exogenous variation in interview...

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How Learning a Musical Instrument Affects the Development of Skills

Hille, Adrian - 2013

Despite numerous studies on skill development, we know little about the causal effects of music training on cognitive and non-cognitive skills. This study examines how long-term music training during childhood and youth affects the development of cognitive skills, school grades, personality,...

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