education. This approach combines kernel matching with entropy balancing to account for selection bias and sorting on gains … adult education in OECD countries, on individual social capital. Training increases participation in civic, political, and …

We analyse the determinants of dropout from secondary and vocational education in Germany using data from the Socio …

smokers. According to a higher time-preference-rate we suppose a higher return to education for smokers who go further on … education. With our empirical fondings we can confirm the presumptions. We use interactions-terms to regress the average rate of … education than non-smokers. …

abilities. Results show that unobserved heterogeneity does not explain the wage differences between actual years of education … and years of required education. This rejects the hypothesis that mismatched workers compensate for heterogeneity in …

We analyze the effect of education on wages using German Socio-Economic Panel data and regional variation in mandatory … estimating the effect of education on cognitive skills. The results suggest that education after the eighth year does not seem to …

In this paper I investigate the causal returns to education for different educational groups in Germany by employing a … find that the causal return to education is 8.5% for the entire sample, 2.3% for graduates from the basic school track and … to education ; wage equation ; control function approach ; second moment exclusion restriction …

We analyse the determinants of dropout from secondary and vocational education in Germany using data from the Socio …

The outcome of pursuing an upper or post-secondary education degree is uncertain. A student might not complete a chosen … whether to invest in post-secondary education, students must factor their probability of completing the degree into their … decision. We study the role of this uncertainty in education choices using representative survey data from Germany. Students …