This dissertation consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of the economics of education … performance. Finally, chapter 5 presents new insights to gender gaps in adult cognitive skills, showing that they are highly …

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 essays investigating various aspects of the link between education …

. Educational outcomes could be improved through raising the attractiveness of the teacher profession, improving teacher education …

This paper investigates two mechanisms through which education may affect cognitive skills in adolescence: the role of …. Overall, secondary education therefore seems to impact students'cognitive skills in adolescence especially through …

training. The theoretical intuition on the impact of wage floors on education is ambiguous. On the one hand, they raise the … opportunity cost of education and prevent further skill accumulation. On the other hand, they lower the employment probability of … workers declines which lowers the opportunity cost of education. High requirements with regard to professional skills …

In 2012, the Brazilian government passed a law that mandated all federal higher education institutions to implement a …

advantage in explaining the gender gap in college STEM major choice. For these reasons, it is important to understand why … plausible pathway is through teachers. We study gender differences in teacher evaluations of student comparative advantage … differences in teacher judgement by gender do not provide another reason for the gender gap in STEM. …

to remedy. We also show that cognitive ability is not the only determinant of education, labor market outcomes and …