In the past two decades many voices were raised calling for corrections, restructuring and improvements of the Sudanese educational system. Complaints focused on the weakness of university students. However, their weaknesses were traced back to the elementary, secondary and high secondary...

This paper examines the use of the internet by a sample of 40,000 students from a group of demographically different schools in England. In analysing this usage a number of questions are asked about patterns of learning and lessons to be learned. Previous research and recent writings on this...

The recent history of European integration has been marked by the Treaty of Maastricht (1992) which established an economic union, monetary policy among the 15 EU countries. This treaty allows among others the free movement of goods, products, services,including the free movement of persons....

How is Europe discovered and studied in France in the school system, particularly at secondary school level? How do we prepare our students to become, not only French citizens, but citizens of Europe? How does giving them the feeling they no longer belong to only one country, constitute a...

Diversity has become an increasingly important issue in the business world as multi-cultural working environments become commonplace. Businesses, operating in today’s global environment, require the ability to leverage diversity by utilizing knowledge and experiences from different groups...

The aim of the thesis is to gain a better understanding of the relationship between education, skills and labor-market outcomes. Based on high-quality skill data from the PIAAC Survey of Adult Skills, Chapter 2 studies the effect of schooling on cognitive skills, exploiting the staggered...

This dissertation consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of the economics of education. Chapters 2 and 3 show that patience and risk-taking as intertemporal preferences are closely related to differences in student achievement across and within countries. Chapter...

The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately. Our paper contributes to this discussion by investigating the effectiveness of grade incentives in increasing student performance. We perform a direct comparison of the two most...

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...

The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately. Our paper contributes to this discussion by investigating the effectiveness of grade incentives in increasing student performance. We perform a direct comparison of the two most...