teachers' pay (defined in monetary terms) is not performance related. If teachers value reputation, and if teaching output is … measured so that it becomes comparable, teachers will increase their effort. The theory is tested using the German PISA-E data …. Our estimates suggest that, despite the flat career profile of German teachers, the quality of teaching tends to be higher …

, I use historical shifts in the school year schedule in Germany, which substantially shortened the duration of the …

We develop and estimate a joint model of the education and teacher-expectation production functions that identifies … nationally representative dataset: two teachers provided their educational expectations for each student. We provide novel … elasticity of the likelihood of college completion with respect to teachers' expectations is about 0.12. On average, teachers are …

uses the framework of an education production function to provide descriptive analysis of the extent to which different …

uses the framework of an education production function to provide descriptive analysis of the extent to which different …

Union (FSU) who arrived in Germany between 1989 and 1994. The results reveal that migrants have lower educational … Sowjetunion, die zwischen 1989 und 1994 nach Deutschland eingewandert sind. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Migranten einen geringeren …

location choice of immigrants and the reflection problem. We exploit a rare immigrant settlement policy in Germany to identify … of peer effect we restrict to no-child-adult-peers who completed their education much before the children in our sample …