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Peer effects in European primary schools: evidence from PIRLS
Ammermüller, Andreas; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2006
We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...
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Institutional Determinants of Student Achievement - Microeconometric Evidence
Link, Susanne - 2013
This volume was prepared by Susanne Link during her stay at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and the Department of Human Capital and Innovation of the Ifo Institute of Economic Research. It was accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Departure of the University of Munich in...
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Beyond the average : peer heterogeneity and intergenerational transmission of education
Chakraborty, Tanika; Nottmeyer, Olga; Schüller, Simone; … - 2014
Estimating the effect of "ethnic capital" on human capital investment decisions is complicated by the endogeneity of location choice of immigrants and the reflection problem. We exploit a rare immigrant settlement policy in Germany to identify the causal impact of parental peer-heterogeneity on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457394
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Beyond the average : ethnic capital heterogeneity and intergenerational transmission of education
Chakrabortya, Tanika; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, … - 2019
Estimating the effect of ethnic capital on human capital investment decisions is complicated by the endogeneity of immigrants' location choice, unobserved local correlates and the reflection problem. We exploit the institutional setting of a rare immigrant settlement policy in Germany, that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161710
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Institutional determinants of student achievement : microeconometric evidence
Link, Susanne - 2013
This volume was prepared by Susanne Link during her stay at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and the Department of Human Capital and Innovation of the Ifo Institute of Economic Research. It was accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Departure of the University of Munich in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744092
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Decentralizing university admission : evidence from a natural experiment
Horstschräer, Julia - 2012
Applying a differences-in-differences strategy, I study the decentralization of university admission as a natural experiment. Is the centralized or decentralized procedure better suited to match prospective students to universities? The analysis uses administrative data on all students within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009668475
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Causal effects of educational mismatch in the labor market : conference paper
Kleibrink, Jan - 2013
This paper analyses the causal effects of educational mismatch on wages, individual health and job satisfaction. As … educational mismatch is subject to unobserved heterogeneity in all of these fields, different identification strategies are … introduced. Results show that the causal effects of educational mismatch are less severe than the majority of the literature has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010341095
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Determinants of regional differences in rates of overeducation in Europe
Davia Rodríguez, María Angeles; McGuinness, Séamus; … - 2016
This paper examines the factors determining variations in spatial rates of overeducation. A quantile regression model has been implemented on a sample of region-yearly data drawn from the EU Survey on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) and several institutional and macroeconomic features...
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Educational Mismatch and Wages in Germany
Bauer, Thomas K. - 2021
This paper contributes to the literature considering the wage effects of educational mismatch in Germany. It uses a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321343
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Educational (mis)match and skill utilization in Germany : assessing the role of worker and job characteristics
Rohrbach-Schmidt, Daniela; Tiemann, Michael - In: Journal for labour market research 49 (2016) 2, pp. 99-119
/BAuA Employment Survey 2006 to compute two different measures of person-to-job matching. A first measure indicates an educational (mis)match …. Second, - and different from most other studies-we observe a skill (mis)match that reflects the correspondence between the … mismatch differ between these measures and explain the probability of being (mis)matched by different sets of worker and job …
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