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Improving educational outcomes: Analyses of intervention and public opinion

Wedel, Katharina - 2024

Katharina Wedel prepared this study while she was working at the Center for the Economics of Education at the ifo … Institute. The study was completed in September 2023 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at LMU … Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of the economics of education. Chapter 2 …

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Zur ökonomischen Verhaltenstheorie: Grundlagen, Kritik, Alternativen - Eine Orientierung für Studierende

Kapeller, Jakob - 2022

Dieser kurze Text bietet eine kursorische Einführung in die klassische ökonomische Verhaltenstheorie, die auf der Kunstfigur des homo oeconomicus beruht. Es wird versucht die konzeptionellen Grundlagen des Modells darzulegen, die wesentlichen Intuitionen des Modells zu vermitteln und zentrale...

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School curricula, educational trajectories, and labor market outcomes

Arold, Benjamin W. - 2022

Benjamin W. Arold prepared this study while he was working at the Center for Economics of Education at the ifo … Institute. The study was completed in March 2022 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the LMU …

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Genetic Endowments, Educational Outcomes and the Mediating Influence of School Investments

Arold, W. Benjamin; Hufe, Paul; Stoeckli, Marc - 2022

Genetic endowments are fixed at conception and matter for the educational attainment of individuals. Do investments in schooling environments mitigate or magnify the outcomes of this genetic lottery? Using data from a representative sample of US adolescents, we analyze the interdependent...

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Genetic Endowments, Educational Outcomes and the Mediating Influence of School Investments

Arold, Benjamin W.; Hufe, Paul; Stoeckli, Marc - 2022

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Work‐based learning in US higher education policy

Raelin, Joseph A. - In: Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning 1 (2011) 1, pp. 10-15

The purpose of this paper is to discuss how US institutions of higher education make appreciable use of work‐based learning options, but their attention to experiential education as a learning vehicle is relatively limited. The connection between the work experience and the on‐campus...

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The Return of Practice to Higher Education: Resolution of a Paradox

Raelin, Joseph A. - In: The Journal of General Education 56 (2007) 1, pp. 57-77

Although academic provision has become associated with professional education, knowledge is delivered through standard classroom methodology associated with liberal arts education. Elsewhere, a "practice turn" has elevated experience as a basis for knowledge. This article shows how practice...

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Reference Dependent Aspirations and Peer Effects in Education

Fongoni, Marco; Norris, Jonathan; Romiti, Agnese; Shi, Zhan - 2022

We study the long-run effects of income inequality within adolescent peer compositions in schools. We propose a theoretical framework based on reference dependence where inequality in peer groups can generate aspiration gaps. Guided by predictions from this framework we find that an increase in...

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Determinants and consequences of student test scores: Evidence from international, big, and text data

Sancassani, Pietro - 2023

Pietro Sancassani prepared this study while he was working at the Center for Economics of Education at the ifo Institut …. The study was completed in March 2023 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the LMU Munich …

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Mehr Teilhabe ermöglichen: Wie Schüler:innen besser auf ihre berufliche Ausbildung vorbereitet werden können

Steiner, Christine; Tillmann, Frank - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 103 (2023) 4, pp. 245-248

In view of the cross-sectoral shortage of skilled workers in Germany, the structural deficits and dysfunctionalities in vocational education and training are currently being discussed intensively and, among other things, the further development of vocational orienta-tion is recommended. The...

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