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Total instructional time exposure and student achievement : an extreme bounds analysis based on German state-level variation

Mandel, Philipp; Süssmuth, Bernd - 2011

Using pooled data on instructional time and student performance by subject, our study finds evidence for the school … learning being a cumulative process by relying on rather poor proxies for instructional time. Highschool ninth graders from the …-instructional time measured in cumulated form from first up to ninth grade. Besides total instructional time exposure, we identify eight …

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A different look at Lenin's legacy : trust, risk, fairness and cooperativeness in the two Germanies

Heineck, Guido; Süssmuth, Bernd - 2010

What are the long-term effects of Communism on economically relevant notions such as social trust? To answer this question, we use the reunification of Germany as a natural experiment and study the post-reunification trajectory of convergence with regard to individuals' trust and risk, as well...

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A different look at Lenin's legacy : trust, risk, fairness and cooperativeness in the two Germanies

Heineck, Guido; Süssmuth, Bernd - 2010

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A different look at Lenin's legacy : social capital and risk taking in the two Germanies

Heineck, Guido; Süssmuth, Bernd - 2013

What are the long-term effects of Communism on economically relevant notions such as social trust, fairness, and scope of cooperation? To answer this question, we study the post-unification trajectory of convergence between East and West German individuals with regard to trust, cooperation, and...

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