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Double standards - are disadvantaged students being graded more leniently?
Himmler, Oliver (contributor); Schwager, Robert (contributor) - 2007
A simple model of decentralised graduation standards is presented. It is shown that a school whose students are … model's predictions are tested using Dutch school-level data. Since students in the Netherlands have to participate both in … a central and in a school specific examination, we can identify the grading policy of individual schools. We find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003447758
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011840590
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Peer effects in language training for migrants
Sprietsma, Maresa; Pfeil, Lisa - 2015
We investigate the effect of peer group composition on language improvement in language classes for adults. Using unique survey data of migrants participating in an intensive language course in Germany, we find that the age and skill composition of groups affect skill acquisition as assessed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010527127
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Poor background or low returns? : why immigrant students in Germany perform so poorly in PISA
Ammermüller, Andreas (contributor) - 2005
Student performance of Germans and immigrants differed greatly in the 2000 PISA study. This paper analyses why the two groups of students performed so differently by estimating educational production functions, using an extension study with imputed data. The difference in the test scores is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002681917
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003846092
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Hochschulranglisten als Qualitätsindikatoren im Wettbewerb der Hochschulen
Büttner, Thiess; Kraus, Margit; Rincke, Johannes - 2002
Am Beispiel der Wirtschaftswissenschaften wird untersucht, inwieweit Studierende die Qualität der Fachbereiche bei der Studienortwahl berücksichtigen. Im Rahmen eines Gravitationsansatzes zeigt sich, dass vor allem die Nähe zum Heimatort und die Lebenshaltungskosten am Ort der Hochschule die...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447876
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Educational opportunities and the role of institutions
Ammermüller, Andreas (contributor) - 2005
opportunities by schooling institutions. A difference-in-differences estimation approach is applied to control for country … more instruction time limits the impact of social origin on student performance. Higher school autonomy increases the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002906297
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Family and gender still matter : the heterogeneity of returns to education in Germany
Schnabel, Isabel; Schnabel, Reinhold - 2002 - Revised September 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447744
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Peer effects and academics’ industry involvement : the moderating role of age on professional imprinting
Aschhoff, Birgit; Grimpe, Christoph - 2012
This study explores the interaction between professional imprinting and age in the context of industry-science collaboration. Specifically, we examine the impact of localized and personal peer effects on academics’ involvement with industry and how these effects are moderated by the career age...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009509666
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Identifying effekt heterogeneity to improve the effeciency of job creation schemes in Germany?
Caliendo, Marco (contributor); Hujer, Reinhard (contributor) - 2005
Previous empirical studies of job creation schemes in Germany have shown that the average effects for the participating individuals are negative. However, we find that this is not true for all strata of the population. Identifying individual characteristics that are responsible for the effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002822067