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Education, skills & labor-market success : microeconometric analyses using large-scale skills assessments
Hampf, Franziska Bernadette - 2020
Franziska Bernadette Hampf prepared this study while she was working at the ifo Center for the Economics of Education …. The study was completed in September 2019 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University … of Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays investigating various aspects of the link between education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012194172
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Human capital investments and expectations about career and family
Wiswall, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - 2016
This paper studies how individuals believe human capital investments will affect their future career and family life. We conducted a survey of high-ability currently enrolled college students and elicited beliefs about how their choice of college major, and whether to complete their degree at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011536082
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Does the early bird catch the worm? Instrumental variable estimates of educational effects of age of school entry in Germany
Puhani, Patrick A.; Weber, Andrea Maria - 2005
We estimate the effect of age of school entry on educational attainment using three different data sets for Germany, sampling pupils at the end of primary school, in the middle of secondary school and several years after secondary school. Results are obtained based on instrumental variable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323050
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Does the early bird catch the worm? Instrumental variable estimates of educational effects of age of school entry in Germany
Puhani, Patrick A.; Weber, Andrea Maria - 2005
We estimate the effect of age of school entry on educational attainment using three different data sets for Germany, sampling pupils at the end of primary school, in the middle of secondary school and several years after secondary school. Results are obtained based on instrumental variable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277101
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The effect of school starting age on academic performance in Hungary
Hámori, Szilvia - 2007
The study estimates the effect of school starting age on academic performance for Hungarian grade four students using the "Progress in International Reading Literacy Study" (PIRLS) and the "Trends in Mathematics and Science Study" (TIMMS). The study uses the control function approach, exploiting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494679
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Kinek használ az évvesztés? Iskolakezdési kor és tanulói teljesítmények Magyarországon
Hámori, Szilvia; Köllő, János - 2010
This paper estimates the effect of school starting age on academic performance using the 2006 "National Assessment of Basic Competencies" (NABC), focusing on disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged children. The instrumental variable estimates of the school starting age imply that those who start...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494701
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The effect of school starting age on academic performance in Hungary
Hámori, Szilvia (contributor) - 2007
, Mathematics and Science performance. -- Education ; student test scores ; enrolment age ; identification …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003484263
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Motivation, resources and the organization of the school system
Albornoz, Facundo; Berlinski, Samuel G.; Cabrales, Antonio - 2016
also provides a novel microfoundation for peer effects, with empirical implications for welfare and different education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521209
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Minimum wages and vocational training incentives in Germany
Kellermann, Kim Leonie - 2017
training. The theoretical intuition on the impact of wage floors on education is ambiguous. On the one hand, they raise the … opportunity cost of education and prevent further skill accumulation. On the other hand, they lower the employment probability of … workers declines which lowers the opportunity cost of education. High requirements with regard to professional skills …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011710845
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Causal Effects of Single-Sex Schools on Long-Term Outcomes : Evidence from Random High School Assignment in South Korea
Lee, Kyoung Hoon - 2021
To the extent that school assignments/choices are endogenous, it is hard to conduct good experimental research on single-sex schooling. Thus, there is little large-scale empirical evidence on the long-term effects of single-sex schools in many developed countries. I explore the causal effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013313930