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The role of parental investments for cognitive and noncognitive skill formation: Evidence for the first 11 years of life

Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred; Reuß, Karsten - 2010

during childhood using data from a longitudinal study, the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk, starting at birth. Our work … characteristics of children. Third, we examine the skill development for girls and boys separately, as well as for children who were …

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Self-Productivity and Complementarities in Human Development: Evidence from MARS

Laucht, Manfred; Coneus, Katja; Blomeyer, Dorothea; … - 2008

well as academic achievement. Our data are taken from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk (MARS), an epidemiological …

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Initial Risk Matrix, Home Resources, Ability Development and Children's Achievement

Laucht, Manfred; Coneus, Katja; Blomeyer, Dorothea; … - 2008

adolescence. We analyse the predictive power of these abilities, initial risk conditions and home resources for children …'s achievement. Our data are taken from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk (MARS), an epidemiological cohort study, which follows … preschool age contribute to the prediction of children's achievement at school age. …

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Bildungsdefizite coronabedingter Schulschließungen? Eine bildungshistorische Analyse

Drewek, Peter - 2020

In aktuellen Prognosen der Lern- und Einkommensverluste durch Corona-bedingte Schulschließungen spielen die Kurzschuljahre zur bundesweiten Vereinheitlichung des Schuljahresbeginns bzw. die Verlängerung der Vollzeitschulpflicht von acht auf neun Jahre in den 1960er Jahren eine prominente...

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Do employment subsidies reduce early apprenticeship dropout?

Fries, Jan; Göbel, Christian; Maier, Michael F. - 2013

We evaluate the effect of the Apprenticeship Bonus, an employment subsidy programme, on early dropout of apprenticeship. Eligibility to the programme is restricted to school leavers who have actively searched for apprenticeship training to start immediately after leaving school, but were...

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Do employment subsidies reduce early apprenticeship dropout?

Fries, Jan; Göbel, Christian; Maier, Michael F. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

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Access, achievements, and aspirations: The impacts of school tracking on student outcomes

Bach, Maximilian; Klein, Thilo; McNamara, Sarah - 2024

Though the use of tracking policies to stratify students is commonplace, evi- dence concerning the effects of ability-based tracking on student performance is mixed. Using rich data from the Hungarian secondary school centralized assignment mechanism and a quasi-experimental framework, we find...

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Inequality of educational opportunities and the role of learning intensity: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in Germany

Camarero Garcia, Sebastian - 2018

Over the 2000s, many federal states in Germany shortened the duration of secondary school by one year while keeping the curriculum unchanged. Exploiting quasi-experimental variation due to the staggered introduction of this reform allows me to identify the causal effect of increased learning...

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Sorting, status, and shadow education: How track placement shapes parental investment

Klein, Thilo; McNamara, Sarah - 2025

Educational tracking-separating students into tracks or schools by ability-is commonplace, but access and preferences for top programs often depend on socioeconomic status (SES), reinforcing inequality. We study shadow education in the context of an early-tracking system, exploiting score...

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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...

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