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Inequalities in educational outcomes: How important is the family?
Bredtmann, Julia; Smith, Nina - 2016
In this paper, we investigate sibling correlations in educational outcomes, which serve as a broad measure of the importance of family and community background. Making use of rich longitudinal survey and register data for Denmark, our main aim is to identify the parental background...
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Occupational mismatch of immigrants in Europe: The role of education and cognitive skills
Cim, Merve; Kind, Michael Sebastian; Kleibrink, Jan - 2017
measured in terms of education, is often regarded as a waste of human capital. Such discussions, however, ignore the imperfect …
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The long-term effect of age at school entry on competencies in adulthood
Görlitz, Katja; Penny, Merlin; Tamm, Marcus - 2019
The previous literature has shown that children who enter school at a more advanced age outperform their younger classmates on competency tests taken between kindergarten and Grade 10. This study analyzes whether these effects of school starting age continue into adulthood. Based on data on math...
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From low emission zone to academic track: Environmental policy effects on educational achievement in elementary school
Brehm, Johannes; Pestel, Nico; Schaffner, Sandra; … - 2022
Low Emission Zones (LEZs) reduce local air pollution by restricting emission-intensive vehicles from accessing designated areas and have been shown to improve population health. Little is known about the effects of driving restriction policies on other areas of life. This paper studies the...
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Life-cycle health effects of compulsory schooling
Schmitz, Hendrik; Tawiah, Beatrice Baaba - 2023
We study the effect of education on health (hospital stays, number of diagnosed conditions, self-rated poor health, and … suggest a positive correlation of health and education which increases over the life-cycle. We do not, however, find any …
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Fertility effects of college education: Evidence from the German educational expansion
Kamhöfer, Daniel A.; Westphal, Matthias - 2017
We estimate the effects of college education on female fertility - a so far understudied margin of education, which we … instrument by arguably exogenous variation induced through college expansions. While college education reduces the probability of … becoming a mother, college-educated mothers have slightly more children than mothers without a college education. Unfolding the …
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The effect of schooling age on fertility
Schaffner, Sandra; Siebert-Meyerhoff, Andrea - 2017
Fertility rates decline in most developed countries. This is especially true for Germany. Fertility is highly correlated with the skill level of women. The age at school enrolment and therefore the age at graduation depends on the month of birth. Children born before the cut-off date start...
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Teaching in the Lab: Financial Incentives in the Education Process
Helbach, Christoph; Keldenich, Klemens - 2012
This study uses a laboratory experiment to analyze the effectiveness of performance-based monetary incentives in the teaching process. The process of knowledge transmission is recreated using a video-stream. Four different teacher payment schemes are compared, three of which depend on the...
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Teaching in the Lab: Financial Incentives in the Education Process
Helbach, Christoph; Keldenich, Klemens - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2012
This study uses a laboratory experiment to analyze the effectiveness of performance-based monetary incentives in the teaching process. The process of knowledge transmission is recreated using a video-stream. Four different teacher payment schemes are compared, three of which depend on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010860291
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That's just - not fair: Gender differences in notions of justice
Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2015
In Becker et al. (2013a,b), we proposed a theory to explain giving behaviour in dictator experiments by a combination of selfishness and a notion of justice. The theory was tested using dictator, social planner, and veil of ignorance experiments. Here we analyse gender differences in preferences...
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