persistence using the Turkish Adult Education Survey (2012). Prior to the reform there is a gender gap in the association of … show that the education reform that increased compulsory schooling from 5 to 8 years, exposed children born after 1986 to 3 … more years of schooling and reduced the effect of parental education on the completion probability of new compulsory …

incentives tounite, relative to larger regions. We show, however, that on thewhole, majority voting on separation and union …

education contingent subsidy paid to the poorest families of a community manages to initiate a bandwagon effect towards … 'education for all'. The optimal mechanism design of such a targeted transfer program is investigated. -- School Attendance …

We study the relationship between political regimes and higher education and its implications for social mobility and …

We study the effect of political regime change on higher education and its distributional and political consequences … education disproportionately affected applicants from less affluent backgrounds and plausibly contributed to the increase in …

. Chapter 3 examines whether the municipalities' voting behavior in state elections in a German state influenced the …, ob das Wahlverhalten der Gemeinden bei Landtagswahlen in einem deutschen Bundesland die Verteilung von diskretionären …