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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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Family background, cohort and education: A French-German comparison
Lauer, Charlotte - 2002
This paper analyses the impact of family background, gender and cohort on educational attainment in France and Germany, relying on a theoretical model imbedded in the human capital theory. In a second step, the educational process is decomposed into school and post-school achievement. The same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298109
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Peer Effects in European Primary Schools: Evidence from PIRLS
Ammermüller, Andreas; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2006
We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297535
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Explaining the persisting mathematics test score gap between boys and girls
Sprietsma, Maresa - 2010
This paper provides evidence on the sources of the persisting mathematics test score gap between boys and girls. In particular, we investigate the role of the share of female mathematics teachers in secondary school and of pupils self-confidence and extrinsic motivation in mathematics. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010303807
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Training, Mobility, and Wages: Specific Versus General Human Capital
Garloff, Alfred; Kuckulenz, Anja - 2005
This paper considers training, mobility decisions and wages together to test for the specificity of human capital … contained in continuing training courses. We empirically analyse the relationship between training, mobility and wages in two …, we find that wages are lower for job changers for the group of training participants, so wages decrease when trained …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297508
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Maintaining (locus of) control? Assessing the impact of locus of control on education decisions and wages
Piatek, Rémi; Pinger, Pia R. - 2010
comes from their own actions instead of being determined by luck or destiny, earn higher wages. However, this positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302997
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A Model of Educational Attainment: Application to the German Case
Lauer, Charlotte - 2002
an economic foundation on the empirical estimation of the impact of certain factors on educational outcomes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298115
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Noncognitive skills, school achievements and educational dropout
Coneus, Katja; Gernandt, Johannes; Saam, Marianne - 2009
We analyse the determinants of dropout from secondary and vocational education in Germany using data from the Socio-Economic Panel from 2000 to 2007. In addition to the role of classical variables like family background and school achievements, we examine the effect of noncognitive skills. Both,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298791
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Are we spending too many years in school? Causal evidence of the impact of shortening secondary school duration
Büttner, Bettina; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2010
This paper analyzes the impact of shortening the duration of secondary schooling on the accumulation of human capital. In 2003, an educational policy reform was enacted in Saxony-Anhalt, a German state, providing a natural experimental setting. The thirteenth year of schooling was eliminated for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299962
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Enrolments in higher education in West Germany: the impact of social background, labour market returns and educational funding
Lauer, Charlotte - 2000
higher education. The expected return to education in terms of wages also affects educational decisions significantly. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297724