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 …

transmission of education of a reform that delayed tracking by two years in one of Germany's federal states. While the reform had …

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 …

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 …