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Childhood family structure and schooling outcomes: evidence for Germany
Francesconi, Marco; Jenkins, Stephen P.; Siedler, Thomas - 2005
We analyze 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/10010267577
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Does educational tracking affect performance and inequality? Differences-in-differences evidence across countries
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2005
Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary-school … between primary and secondary school across tracked and non-tracked systems. Six international student assessments provide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274166
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Armed conflict and schooling: evidence from the 1994 Rwandan genocide
Akresh, Richard; de Walque, Damien - 2008
were school-aged when exposed to the war. The findings show a strong negative impact of the genocide on schooling, with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277119
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How immigrant children affect the academic achievement of native Dutch children
Ohinata, Asako; van Ours, Jan C. - 2011
In this paper, we analyze how the share of immigrant children in the classroom affects the educational attainment of native Dutch children. Our analysis uses data from various sources, which allow us to characterize educational attainment in terms of reading literacy, mathematical skills and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282491
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The Impact of Length of the School Year on Student Performance and Earnings: Evidence from the German Short School Years
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2003
This paper investigates how changing the length of school year, leaving the basic curriculum unchanged, affects … learning and subsequent earnings. I use variation introduced by the West-German short school years in 1966-67, which exposed … some students to a total of about two thirds of a year less of schooling while enrolled. I show that the short school years …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261593
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Paid to perform? Compensation profiles under pure wage and performance related pay arrangements
Sessions, John G.; Skåtun, John D. - 2011
Whilst existing efficiency wage literature assumes detection probabilities of shirkers are exogenous, this paper finds them positively and endogenously dependent on non-shirkers' effort. It shares the result with the endogenous monitoring models where, in some regions, workers reduce effort in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286003
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A human capital model of the effects of abilities and family background on optimal schooling levels
Regan, Tracy L.; Burghardt, Galen; Oaxaca, Ronald L. - 2006
This paper develops a theoretical model of optimal schooling levels where ability and family background are the central explanatory variables. We derive schooling demand and supply functions based on individual wealth maximization. Using NLSY79 data we stratify our sample into one-year FTE work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267313
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Birth order, educational attainment and earnings: an investigation using the PSID
Kantarevic, Jasmin; Mechoulan, Stéphane - 2005
Whether siblings of specific birth order perform differently has been a longstanding open empirical question. We use the family tree structure of the PSID to examine two claims found in the literature: whether being early in the birth order implies a distinct educational advantage, and whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267508
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The rise and fall of the American Jewish PhD
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2008
This paper is concerned with trends over the post-WWII period in the employment of American Jews as College and University teachers and in their receipt of the PhD. The empirical analysis is for PhD production from 1950 to 2004 and Jews are identified by the Distinctive Jewish Name (DJN)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268725
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The effect of high school employment on educational attainment: a conditional difference-in-differences approach
Buscha, Franz; Maurel, Arnaud; Page, Lionel; … - 2008
Using American panel data from the National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88) this paper investigates the effect of working during grade 12 on attainment. We exploit the longitudinal nature of the NELS by employing, for the first time in the related literature, a semiparametric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268810