students’ exposure to financial education at school. Our results are threefold. First, mathematical skills have a positive … financial education at school varies widely across countries, and how having such an opportunity positively influences financial …Financial literacy is low among young people and their uninformed choices may have costly and long-lasting consequences …

We show that Progress 8 is a reliable measure of school effectiveness and that parents often do not apply to their most … effective local school. …

Benjamin W. Arold prepared this study while he was working at the Center for Economics of Education at the ifo … Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of how school curricula affect students in … the classroom and beyond. Chapter 2 demonstrates that the abolishment of compulsory religious education in Germany does …