This paper analyzes the relationship between higher education and body weight and smoking behavior among women in … BMI by about 0.21% and the probability of being classified as obese by 0.44 percentage points. Regarding smoking, we find …

This paper provides evidence of the effect of age at school entry on college admission and earnings. It does so by … applicants with different ages at school entry depending on whether they were born on December 31 or on January 1, our estimates …

This paper provides evidence of the effect of age at school entry on college admission. We do so by exploiting a number … different ages at school entry depending on whether they are born on December 31st or on January 1st, our estimates show that … further suggest that the difference in the likelihood of admission is driven by candidates’ learning ability at primary school …

universal random assignment of students to high schools in certain areas of South Korea to provide estimates of school effects … that may better reflect the effects of school practices. We find significant effects of schools on scores in high …-stakes college entrance exams: a 1 standard deviation increase in school quality leads to 0.06-0.08 standard deviations higher …

Hochschulen erhalten in der Diskussion um den Übergang von der Schule zur Hochschule derzeit eine enorme Aufmerksamkeit … sowie Drittmittelprojekten - beim Übergang Schule-Hochschule gefordert sind. Angesichts dessen richtet dieser Sammelband den … Betrachtungen als auch empirische Befunde sowie praktische Berichte des Übergangs Schule-Hochschule aus der Perspektive der …