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Peer effects in European primary schools : evidence from PIRLS

Ammermüller, Andreas (contributor); … - 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...

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Duration and intensity of Kindergarten attendance and secondary school track choice

Landvoigt, Tim (contributor); Muehler, Grit (contributor); … - 2007

This paper investigates the relationship between kindergarten attendance and secondary school track choice in West-Germany …

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Which incentives to increase survey response of secondary school pupils?

Sprietsma, Maresa - 2016

survey increases the response rate of secondary school pupils. It is found that pupils who receive a personalised invitation …

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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/10003936744

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 … spite of huge differences in the distribution of education in France and Germany, these countries prove surprisingly similar …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447159

Education and unemployment : a French-German comparison

Lauer, Charlotte - 2003

examines the impact of education on both risk components. France faces a higher unemployment rate than West-Germany, due to a … graduates face a higher risk of getting unemployed in Germany than in France. Concerning the reemployment prospects of the … unemployed, they are better in France than in West-Germany at all education levels, but particularly for the unemployed with a …

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The impact of monetary instruments on shock absorption in EU-countries

Müller, Claudia; Buscher, Herbert S. - 1999

The main characteristic of the implementation of the European Monetary Union (EMU) is the transition from various national currencies to the Euro, the common European currency. A final fixing of the individual bilateral exchange rates of all European countries involved in the Monetary Union...

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International spillovers and feedback : modelling in a disequilibrium framework

Winker, Peter; Beck, Martin - 2000

first few quarters. This combination resulted in a major increase of imports from the main trading partners of West Germany … in other countries leading to a feedback on Germany. The paper provides a short overview over the basic model. The … modelling approach and estimation results for the trade submodels are presented in some detail and simmulation results for the …

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Exchange rate pass-through to consumer prices : a European perspective

Hüfner, Felix P. (contributor); … - 2002

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001701674

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...

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