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How does education improve cognitive skills? Instructional time versus timing of instruction
Dahmann, Sarah - 2015
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288147
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University tuition fees and high school students' educational intentions
Bahrs, Michael; Siedler, Thomas - 2018
This paper studies whether higher education tuition fees influence the intention to acquire a university degree among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011962192
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Non-take-up of student financial help: A microsimulation for Germany
Herber, Stefanie P.; Kalinowski, Michael - 2016
This paper estimates the percentage of students who do not take up their federal need-based student financial aid entitlements and sheds light on determinants of this behavior. Against the background that educational mobility in Germany is low although extensive student financial aid for needy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011499558
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The impact of education on personality: Evidence from a German high school reform
Dahmann, Sarah; Anger, Silke - 2014
This paper investigates the short-term effects of a reduction in the length of high school on students' personality traits using a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment. Starting in 2001, academic-track high school (Gymnasium) was reduced from nine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010368338
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Tracking and the intergenerational transmission of education: Evidence from a natural experiment
von Werder, Marten; Lange, Simon - 2016
transmission of education of a reform that delayed tracking by two years in one of Germany's federal states. While the reform had …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011574113
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Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment in Germany: The Last Five Decades
Heineck, Guido; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2007
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600683
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Can raising instructional time crowd out student pro-social behaviour? Evidence from Germany
Krekel, Christian - 2017
We study whether raising instructional time can crowd out student pro-social behaviour. To this end, we exploit a large educational reform in Germany that has raised weekly instructional time for high school students by 12.5% as a quasi-natural experiment. We find that this rise has a negative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641753
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Health effects of instruction intensity: Evidence from a natural experiment in German high-schools
Quis, Johanna Sophie; Reif, Simon - 2017
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011665815
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Fiskalische und individuelle Nettoerträge und Renditen von Bildungsinvestitionen im jungen Erwachsenenalter
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Stichnoth, Holger - 2019
In dieser Studie werden auf der Basis einer Weiterentwicklung des ZEW Mikrosimulationsmodells des Abgaben- Steuer- und Transfersystems fiskalische und individuelle Nettoerträge und Renditen von Bildungsinvestitionen für junge Erwachsene bezogen auf das Jahr 2016 untersucht und mit früheren...
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Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment in Germany: The Last Five Decades
Heineck, Guido; Riphahn, Regina T. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017410