particular, we investigate the role of the share of female mathematics teachers in secondary school and of pupils self …-confidence and extrinsic motivation in mathematics. We find that the share of female mathematics teachers does not seem to affect …. -- Mathematics test score gap ; gender ; share of female teachers ; self-confidence …

It is a well-known fact that the level of parents' education is strongly correlated with the educational achievement of …

examines the impact of education on both risk components. France faces a higher unemployment rate than West-Germany, due to a … higher risk of entering unemployment whereas the risk, when unemployed, of not getting reemployed is lower than in Germany …. The risk of entering unemployment is particularly high for French employees with poor education, but higher education …

randomly assign Turkish or German first names to a set of essays so that some teachers believe a given essay was written by a …

different procedures for imputing the pre-unification education variable in the BASiD data. To do so, we exploit information on … education-related periods that are creditable for the Pension Insurance. Combining these periods with information on the … (overpredict) the share of high-skilled (low-skilled) for the oldest age groups. Comparing our imputed education variable with …

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

Using information on family background, we estimate returns to education, allowing for the heterogeneity of returns. In … the substantial political efforts to equalize educational opportunities in Germany. Persons with less-educated parents … earn lower wages, but have higher returns to education. This supports the view that persons from less-educated backgrounds …

education is investigated using an ordered probit model of educational attainment with data from the Polish Labour Force Survey …. The results show that children´s education is strongly related to household structure, parents´ education, city size, and … on children´s education. We conclude that, if poverty transmission takes place between generations, this seems to be …