children and participating in the labor market. Chapter 3 provides evidence that the content of science education standards in …Benjamin W. Arold prepared this study while he was working at the Center for Economics of Education at the ifo … the classroom and beyond. Chapter 2 demonstrates that the abolishment of compulsory religious education in Germany does …

The strong link between parental socioeconomic status (SES) and children's success in school is well established … parenting and to use psychological control with their children more often, these two factors being linked to child behavioural … that behavioural problems in children are associated with lower school grades independent of parenting style. These …

reforms based on high-quality administrative register data, using children's grade point average (GPA) rank at age 15 to 16 …

grade as was previously the case. The reform provides a situation where the age at which children receive their first grade …

measure is a cohort-weighted average of past PISA scores (representing the quality of education) of the working age population … and the corresponding mean years of schooling (representing the quantity of education). In contrast to the existing … elasticity of the stock of human capital with respect to the quality of education is three to four times larger than for the …

education (not considered here) would inflate them. Policies aimed at improving the quality of education and adult training will …

This paper reviews some of the econometric methods that have been used in the economics of education. The focus is on … interpretation of the results. We start by considering the estimation of the returns to education both within the context of a … of assessing the impact of education quality, the teacher contribution to pupils' achievement, and the effect of school …

education (not considered here) would inflate them. Policies aimed at improving the quality of education and adult training will …