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In this paper, I evaluate potential side effects of the educational expansion in Germany on the learning outcomes of today's students. The educational expansion was a demand shock in the labor market of teachers, which could have thus encouraged individuals with different teaching abilities to...
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Information about teachers' effectiveness at the hiring stage is particularly scarce despite its importance for personnel decisions. Using the German setting of teacher training, I investigate the relationship of teachers' pre-service cognitive and pedagogical skills as measured by two state...
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Exploiting the age-at-enrollment policies in 16 German states as exogenous source of variation, I examine whether the schooling of the oldest child in a migrant household affects parents' integration. My analysis links administrative records on primary school enrollment cutoff dates with micro...
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classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family …
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classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family …
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randomly with respect to family background, and we demonstrate that this is true in our data. Moreover, we show that … neighborhood characteristics, and therefore the family background of students. The estimated peer effect may capture unobserved … within schools are in fact formed more or less randomly with respect to family background characteristics (other than …
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