We exploit an exogenous increase in General Educational Development (GED) testing requirements to determine whether raising the difficulty of the test causes students to finish high school rather than drop out and GED certify. We find that a six point decrease in GED pass rates induces a 1.3...

Zum Schutz vor Corona musste das Lernen und Lehren an Hochschulen, Schulen sowie anderen Aus- und Weiterbildungseinrichtungen zeitweise nahezu vollständig ins Digitale überführt werden. Doch auch schon vor Corona hat kaum noch jemand ausschließlich analog, also ohne digitale Unterstützung,...

This volume was prepared by Benedikt Siegler while working at the Center for the Economics of Education of the Ifo Institute. It was completed in June 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich (LMU) in November 2014. The thesis includes...