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Peer Effects in European Primary Schools: Evidence from PIRLS
Ammermüller, Andreas; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2006
classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297535
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The behavioralist goes to school: Leveraging behavioral economics to improve educational performance
Levitt, Steven D.; List, John A.; Neckermann, Susanne; … - 2012
Decades of research on behavioral economics have established the importance of factors that are typically absent from the standard economic framework: reference dependent preferences, hyperbolic preferences, and the value placed on non-financial rewards. To date, these insights have had little...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010309241
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Education and Unemployment: A French-German Comparison
Lauer, Charlotte - 2003
This paper analyses the link between educational attainment and unemployment risk in a French-German comparison, based on a discrete time competing risks hazard rate model applied to comparable microdata sets. The unemployment risk is broken down into the risk of entering unemployment and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297286
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What a Difference Immigration Law Makes: PISA Results, Migration Background and Social Mobility in Europe and Traditional Countries of Immigration
Minoiu, Nicoleta; Entorf, Horst - 2004
The purpose of this article is to evaluate the importance of social class, migration background and command of national languages for the PISA school performance of teenagers living in European countries (France, Finland, Germany, United Kingdom, and Sweden) and traditional countries of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297318
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PISA: What Makes the Difference? Explaining the Gap in PISA Test Scores Between Finland and Germany
Ammermüller, Andreas - 2004
The huge difference in the level and variance of student performance in the 2000 PISA study between Finland and Germany motivates this paper. It analyses why Finnish students performed so much better by estimating educational production functions for both countries. The difference in the reading...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297320
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Educational Opportunities and the Role of Institutions
Ammermüller, Andreas - 2005
opportunities by schooling institutions. A difference-in-differences estimation approach is applied to control for country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297451
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Family and gender still matter: the heterogeneity of returns to education in Germany
Schnabel, Reinhold; Schnabel, Isabel - 2002
Using information on family background, we estimate returns to education, allowing for the heterogeneity of returns. In … order to control for the unobserved heterogeneity shared by family members, we construct a siblings sample and employ family … fixed-effects and family correlated random-effects models. Our main result is that family background still matters despite …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297750
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Duration and Intensity of Kindergarten Attendance and Secondary School Track Choice
Landvoigt, Tim; Muehler, Grit; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2007
This paper investigates the relationship between kindergarten attendance and secondary school track choice in West-Germany. Our analysis is based on a panel of 12 to 14-year olds with information from age two on, drawn from the German SocioEconomic Panel (GSOEP) 1984?2005. We estimate binary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297938
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Self-Productivity in Early Childhood
Coneus, Katja; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2007
Self-productivity is a crucial feature in the process of skill formation. It means that skills and health acquired at one stage in the life cycle enhance skills and health formation at later stages. This paper presents an empirical investigation of self-productivity in early childhood in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297940
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Self-Productivity in Early Childhood
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Coneus, Katja - 2007
Self-productivity is a crucial feature in the process of skill formation. It means that skills and health acquired at one stage in the life cycle enhance skills and health formation at later stages. This paper presents an empirical investigation of self-productivity in early childhood in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297944