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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 models. Our main result is that family background still matters despite …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447744
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Entwicklung und Ungleichheit von Fähigkeiten: Anmerkungen aus ökonomischer Sicht
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2009
und Kompetenzen auch im Schulalter und im Erwerbsleben ist. Für benachteiligte Kinder scheint somit die …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003846092
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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 Ethiopia's primary schools was the official language (Amharic) - the mother tongue of only one third of the population. This paper uses the variation in individual's exposure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436069
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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 disadvantaged on the labour market applies less demanding standards because such students have less incentives to graduate. The model's predictions are tested using Dutch school-level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003447758
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002906297
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011840590
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003314712
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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. 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003528836
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Overqualification of graduates : assessing the role of family background
Erdsiek, Daniel - 2014
might operate beyond the mechanisms previously analysed. I explore how the family background of university graduates affects … family background effects are discussed and proxy variables for the mediating factors cognitive skills, study characteristics … characteristics, and social capital are found to be important mediators of the family background effects. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468427
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Self-productivity in early childhood
Coneus, Katja (contributor); Pfeiffer, Friedhelm (contributor) - 2007
Self-productivity is a crucial feature in the process of skill formation. It means that skills and health acquired at one stage in the life cycle enhance skills and health formation at later stages. This paper presents an empirical investigation of self-productivity in early childhood in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003567065