transmission of education of a reform that delayed tracking by two years in one of Germany's federal states. While the reform had …Proponents of tracking argue that the creation of more homogeneous classes increases effciency while opponents point … out that tracking aggravates initial differences between students. We estimate the effects on the intergenerational …

This paper investigates two mechanisms through which education may affect cognitive skills in adolescence: the role of …. Overall, secondary education therefore seems to impact students'cognitive skills in adolescence especially through …

A large literature aims to establish a causal link between education and health using changes in compulsory schooling … laws. It is however unclear how well more education is operationalized by marginal increases in school years. We shed a new …

Over the last decades the German education system underwent numerous reforms in order to improve "equality of … opportunity", i.e. to guarantee all pupils equal access to higher education. At the same time internationally comparative evidence … investigates the development in intergenerational education mobility in Germany for the birth cohorts 1929 through 1978 and tests …

typically migrate at different ages within a given family. We consider several education outcomes conditional on family fixed … to a high age at immigration than that of males. Also, language skills do not appear to be central for the causal …

terrorism shock. -- immigration ; attitudes ; education ; September 11 ; terrorism … immediate shift of around 40 percent of one within standard deviation to more negative attitudes toward immigration and resulted … within-individual variation this quasi-experiment provides evidence on the role of education inmoderating the negative …