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transmission of education of a reform that delayed tracking by two years in one of Germany's federal states. While the reform had …
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-course information. Exploiting the advantages of the projected data, the authors compare the returns to education - measured in terms of …
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Exploiting the age-at-enrollment policies in 16 German states as exogenous source of variation, I examine whether the schooling of the oldest child in a migrant household affects parents' integration. My analysis links administrative records on primary school enrollment cutoff dates with micro...
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. Exploiting the advantages of the projected data, the authors compare the returns to education - measured in terms of pension …
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music education programs are becoming increasingly popular among policy makers in Germany and other developed countries …, the effects of universal music education on such outcomes are not yet sufficiently studied. This paper analyses the Jedem …
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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 …
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We analyze the impact of exercising sports during childhood and adolescence on educational attainment. The theoretical framework is based on models of allocation of time and educational productivity. Using the rich information from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we apply generalized...
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typically migrate at different ages within a given family. We consider several education outcomes conditional on family fixed …
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We estimate the causal effect of maternal education on the mental health of mother's children in late adolescence and … adulthood. Theoretical considerations are ambiguous about a causal effect of maternal education on children's mental health. To … identify the causal effect of maternal education, we exploit exogenous variation in maternal years of schooling, caused by a …
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A lack of cultural integration is often blamed for hindering immigrant families' economic progression. This paper is a first attempt to explore whether immigrant parents' ethnic identity affects the next generation's human capital accumulation in the host country. Empirical results based on data...
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