Over the 2000s, many federal states in Germany shortened the duration of secondary school by one year while keeping the …

terms of the skill contents of jobs held and the type of payment individuals receive for their work. An increase in school …

This paper analyzes how high-ability students respond to different indicators of university quality when applying for a … information in the quality dimensions mentoring, infrastructure and students' satisfaction than with respect to research …

-Saharan African countries. Our analysis is based on a comparison of orphans and non-orphaned children living under the same conditions … with a biological parent) to orphans. Using household fixed-effects estimation, we provide evidence that children not …

-Economic Panel from 2000 to 2007. In addition to the role of classical variables like family background and school achievements, we … examine the effect of noncognitive skills. Both, better school grades and higher noncognitive skills reduce the risk to become … an educational dropout. The influence of school achievements on the dropout probability tends to decrease and the …

outcomes for students in Lower Track Secondary Schools in Germany. We find mostly insignificant effects of the treatment on … average outcomes, which mask quite heterogeneous effects. For those students, who are taking extra cursework to continue … education, the grade point average is unaffected and the likelihood of completing a Middle Track Secondary School degree falls …