Der Autor betrachtet auf eine polemische Art und Weise die neue Regelung zur leistungsorientierten Vergütung von Hochschulprofessoren.

One of the main issues of the reform regarding a professor’s remuneration at German universitiesis the introduction of a performance-dependent salary. This paper applies relative rank ordertournaments to special performance benefits at university level. It turns out that the awardingprocedure...

Elementary schooling in North America in the early 20th century underwent major changes with the spread of graded schools with multiple classrooms and teachers to semi-urban and rural areas. Detailed schooling records from British Columbia indicate that pupil attendance responded strongly to the...

This paper proposes a simple framework to study incentives and matching in the marketfor teachers. The framework is used to investigate the consequences of introducing incentivepay for teachers when contracts have both a matching and an incentive effect. Our analysissuggests that school...

The paper analyzes school choice in primary schools in Germany. The data used isfrom Wuppertal, a major city in North-Rhine Westphalia (NRW), where primaryschool districts existed before 2008. It is shown that it is not uncommon to attend aprimary school that is not the assigned public school....

A theoretical model is advanced that demonstrates that, if teacher and student attendancegenerate a shared good, then teacher and student attendance will be mutually reinforcing.Using data from the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan, empirical evidence supportingthat proposition is...

Energie und erneuerbare Energien sind bisher keine zentralen Themen für denGrundschul- Unterricht und zumeist auch nicht für die SEK I. Dies liegt vor allem an derfehlenden Lehrplananbindung. Als Konsequenz hiervon gibt es auch kaum Lehrmaterial,welches interessierte Lehrkräfte nutzen...

In response to PISA, all German federal states but one have adopted central exitexaminations (CEEs) at the end of all secondary school tracks. Theoretically, the advantagesof CEEs are fairly undisputed. CEEs make teaching and learning output observable andcomparable across schools, and provide...

Economic theory suggests that it is optimal to reward teachers depending on therelative performance of their students. We develop an econometric approach, based onstochastic frontier analysis, to construct a fair ranking that accounts for the socio-economicbackground of students and schools and...

Das deutsche Bildungssystem steht auf dem Prüfstand. Nach den international verglei-chenden Schulstudien der vergangenen Jahre wird in Deutschland über neue, ungewohnte Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten nachgedacht. Reformen des Bildungssystems sind denkbar gewor-den, die es ohne die Debatte um PISA...