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Advising Policymakers Through the Media
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2004
In the information age an exchange with the media is part of the duties the economics profession has to deliver to educate the public and to ensure its position in society. A key issue is the education of policymakers through the media. It is the silver bullet of policy advice in comparison to...
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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 …
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Selective Schools
Brunello, Giorgio; Giannini, Massimo - 1999
This paper studies how schooling admission tests affect economic performance in an economy where individuals are endowed with both academic and non academic abilities and both abilities matter for labor productivity. We develop a simple model with selective government held schools, where...
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Childhood family structure and schooling outcomes: evidence for Germany
Francesconi, Marco; Jenkins, Stephen P.; Siedler, Thomas - 2005
-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common …
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Does Management Matter in Schools?
Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014
outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468154
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Identification, characteristics and impact of faked interviews in surveys : an analysis by means of genuine fakes in the raw data of SOEP
Schraepler, Joerg-Peter; Wagner, Gert G. - 2003
To the best of our knowledge, most of the few methodological studies which analyze the impact of faked interviews on survey results are based on ?artificial fakes? generated by project students in a ?laboratory environment?. In contrast, panel data provide a unique opportunity to identify data...
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Raising juveniles
Bell, Clive; Gersbach, Hans; Schneider, Maik T. - 2010
This paper investigates how families make decisions about the education of juveniles. The decision problem is analyzed in three variations: a 'decentralized' scheme, in which the parents control the purse-strings, but the children dispose of their time as they see fit; a 'hierarchical' scheme,...
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Strategic Parenting, Birth Order and School Performance
Hotz, V. Joseph; Pantano, Juan - 2013
stringent disciplinary environments in response to their earlier-born children's poor performance in school in order to deter … such outcomes for their later-born offspring. We provide robust empirical evidence that school performance of children in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329046
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Teaching practices and social capital
Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre; Shleifer, Andrei - 2011
We use several data sets to consider the effect of teaching practices on student beliefs, as well as on organization of firms and institutions. In cross-country data, we show that teaching practices (such as copying from the board versus working on projects together) are strongly related to...
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Parenting with style: Altruism and paternalism in intergenerational preference transmission
Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2012
We construct a theory of intergenerational preference transmission that rationalizes the choice between alternative parenting styles (related to Baumrind 1967). Parents maximize an objective function that combines Beckerian and paternalistic altruism towards children. They can affect their...
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