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Does Money Buy Higher Schooling? Evidence from Secondary School Track Choice in Germany

Tamm, Marcus - 2007

The German schooling system selects children into different secondary school tracks already at a very early stage in … secondary schooling achievements display a strong correlation with parental income.We use sibling fixed effects models and … information on a natural experiment in order to analyze whether this correlation is due to a causal effect of income or due to …

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Sheepskin Effects in Japan

Bauer, Thomas K.; Dross, Patrick J.; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 2003

Using data for the 1990 ?s,this paper examines the role of sheepskin effects in the returns to education for Japan.Our estimation results indicate that sheepskin effects explain about 50%of the total returns to schooling.We further find that sheepskin effect are only important for workers in...

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What Can We Learn From International Student Performance Studies? Some Methodological Remarks

Fertig, Michael - 2004

The determinants which are decisive for a successful accumulation of human capital and the transfer of these skills into the labor market are a contentious issue in the literature on the economics of education. Different studies on, for instance, the impact of school resources typically reach...

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The Effect of Age at School Entry on Educational Attainment in Germany

Fertig, Michael; Kluve, Jochen - 2005

particular, German policy makers, pedagogues, parents, and teachers have since long discussed whether the traditional … children who entered school in the late 1960s through the late 1970s, a time when delaying enrolment was common, we investigate …

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Assessing the performance of matching algorithms when selection into treatment is strong

Augurzky, Boris; Kluve, Jochen - 2004

This paper investigates the method of matching regarding two crucial implementation choices, the distance measure and the type of algorithm.We implement optimal full matching – a fully efficient algorithm – and present a framework for statistical inference. The implementation uses data from...

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Sheepskin Effects in Japan

Bauer, Thomas; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Dross, Patrick J. - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2003

Using data for the 1990’s, this paper examines the role of sheepskin effects in the returns to education for Japan. Our estimation results indicate that sheepskin effects explain about 50% of the total returns to schooling. We further find that sheepskin effect are only important for workers...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005738702

Educational Production, Endogenous Peer Group Formation and Class Composition - Evidence From the PISA 2000 Study

Fertig, Michael - 2003

other school quality measures on students' outcomes. This paper analyses the effect of achievement heterogeneity and …

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Who's to Blame? The Determinants of German Students' Achievement in the PISA 2000 Study

Fertig, Michael - 2003

The publication of the OECD report on the PISA 2000 study induced a public outcry in Germany.On average,German students … econometric analysis of the association of the individual-level reading test scores of German students with individual and family … regulation of schools or the substantial share of non-citizens among the participating students,are by no means supported by the …

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School Quality, Educational Attainment and Aggregation Bias

Fertig, Michael; Wright, Robert E. - 2003

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 tatistically significant and correctly signed class size effects...

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Shot Across the Bow, Stigma or Selection? - The Effect of Repeating a Class on Educational Attainment

Fertig, Michael - 2004

The German practice of compelling weak students to repeat a class has come under heavy criticism recently. Many …

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