participation and a relationship between two different age groups: the young Social Education students and the elderly. It has a … double purpose: to promote that reciprocal space for cooperation and interaction in a way that avoids the risk of … education from a wide-open inclusive perspective to take advantage of senior talent and innovation. …

teachers? pay (defined in monetary terms) is not performance related. If teachers value reputation, and if teaching output is … measured so that it becomes comparable, teachers will increase their effort. The theory is tested using the German PISA-E data …. Our estimates suggest that, despite the flat career profile of German teachers, the quality of teaching tends to be higher …

We investigate second generation migrants and native children at several stages in the German education system to … secondary schooling in Germany which are not migrant-specific. …

between parental education and immigrant origin, I link this new finding to the fact that most second generation groups are … less adversely affected by low parental education than are the children of native Germans. …

appropriately defined comparison sets, and we show that under certain conditions our scheme induces teachers to allocate socially … optimal levels of effort to all students. Because this scheme employs only ordinal information, our scheme allows education …, our scheme removes incentives for teachers to teach to a particular assessment form and eliminates any opportunities to …

potential for misclassifying teachers as high- or low-performing can be substantial. Misspecifying dynamic relationships can …

This study was prepared by Annika B. Bergbauer while she was working at the Ifo Center for the Economics of Education … paper relates education measures to economic development. The following three papers contribute to the understanding of …

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 …

-based knowledge but do not affect mathematical literacy. Moreover, teachers in German states with central exit examinations are more …