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Timing of school tracking as determinant of intergenerational transmission od education

Bauer, Philipp; Riphahn, Regina T. - In: Economics letters 91 (2006) 1, pp. 90-97

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Intergenerational transmission of educational attainment in Germany : the last five decades

Heineck, Guido; Riphahn, Regina T. - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 229 (2009) 1, pp. 36-60

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Kindergarten enrollment and the intergenerational transmission of education

Bauer, Philipp; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2009

We use Swiss data to test whether intergenerational educational mobility is affected by the age at which children enroll in kindergarten. Taking advantage of heterogeneity across cantons we find that early kindergarten enrollment significantly increases educational mobility. -- Kindergarten ;...

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Heterogeneity on the interenerational transmission of educational attainment : evidence from Switzerland on natives and second-generation immigrants

Bauer, Philipp; Riphahn, Regina T. - In: Journal of population economics 20 (2007) 1, pp. 121-148

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The intergenerational transmission of educational attainment in East and West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Trübswetter, Parvati - 2011

Socialist societies often emphasized the abolition of traditional social classes. To achieve this objective, educational opportunities were at times 'actively managed' and allocated to children of less educated parents. What happened to these patterns after the demise of socialist rule in...

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Intergenerational transmission of educational attainment in Germany : the last five decades

Heineck, Guido (contributor); Riphahn, Regina T. (contributor) - 2007

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003577717

Intergenerational transmission of educational attainment in Germany : the last five decades

Heineck, Guido (contributor); Riphahn, Regina T. (contributor) - 2007

Over the last decades the German education system underwent numerous reforms in order to improve "equality of opportunity", i.e. to guarantee all pupils equal access to higher education. At the same time internationally comparative evidence yields that Germany features particularly low...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003557338

The transition to tertiary education and parental background over time

Riphahn, Regina T.; Schieferdecker, Florian - In: Journal of population economics 25 (2012) 2, pp. 635-675

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Cohort effects in the educational attainment of second generation immigrants in Germany : an analysis of census data

Riphahn, Regina T. - 2001

Even though second generation immigrants make up ever increasing population shares in industrialized countries we know little about their social integration and wellbeing. This study focuses on the educational attainment of German born children of immigrants. Their schooling success still lags...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401249

What drives the reversal of the gender education gap? : evidence from Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Schwientek, Caroline - 2015

We study the mechanisms that are associated with the gender education gap and its reversal in Germany. We focus on … family background nor labor market characteristics appear to be strongly associated with the gender education gap. There is … some evidence that the gender gap in upper secondary education reflects the rising share of single parent households which …

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