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A model of educational attainment : application to the German case

Lauer, Charlotte - 2002

education to decide on the optimal amount of education they want to invest in. In an extension of the model, the educational …

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Age-dependent skill formation and returns to education

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm (contributor); … - 2007

In this study, we try to connect the economic literature on human capital formation with findings from neurobiology and psychology on early childhood development and self-regulation. Our basic framework for assessing the distribution of agespecific returns to investment in skills is an...

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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...

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Peer effects in European primary schools : evidence from PIRLS

Ammermüller, Andreas (contributor); … - 2006

classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family …

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Entwicklung und Ungleichheit von Fähigkeiten: Anmerkungen aus ökonomischer Sicht

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2009

Nirgends sonst im ökonomischen Handeln fallen Kosten und Nutzen im Zeitablauf und aufgeteilt nach Investoren und Nutznießern so eklatant auseinander wie bei Bildungsinvestitionen. In dem vorliegenden Beitrag wird argumentiert, dass in der sozialen Realität die Bildungsungleichheit im...

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Duration and intensity of Kindergarten attendance and secondary school track choice

Landvoigt, Tim (contributor); Mühler, Grit (contributor); … - 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) 19842005. We estimate binary...

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Quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of mother tongue-based education on reading skills and early labour market outcomes

Argaw, Bethlehem A. - 2016

Prior to the introduction of mother tongue based education in 1994, the language of instruction for most subjects in … reading skills of birth cohorts that gained access to mother tongue-based primary education after 1994 improved significantly … by about 11 percentage points. The provision of primary education in mother tongue halved the reading skills gap between …

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Student employment : advantage or handicap for academic achievement?

Sprietsma, Maresa - 2015

source of exogenous variation in the probability or being employed to correct for potential endogeneity bias. We find no …

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Additional career assistance and educational outcomes for students in lower track secondary schools

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Licklederer, Stefanie - 2017

education, the grade point average is unaffected and the likelihood of completing a Middle Track Secondary School degree falls …

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Additional career assistance and educational outcomes for students in lower track secondary schools

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Licklederer, Stefanie - 2017

education, the grade point average is unaffected and the likelihood of completing a Middle Track Secondary School degree falls …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011778191