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Externalities and subsidization of higher education : conference paper

Winter, Stefan; Pfitztner, Alexander - 2013

Higher education is subsidized worldwide, although with pronounced differences in levels of subsidization. While public … from poorer family backgrounds to join universities. The other argument holds that higher education is accompanied by … positive externalities. Without subsidization, so the story reads, there would be an underinvestment in higher education. This …

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Majority vote on educational standards : conference paper

Schwager, Robert - 2013 - First draft

The direct democratic choice of an examination standard, i.e., a performance level required to graduate, is evaluated against a utilitarian welfare function. It is shown that the median preferred standard is inefficiently low if the marginal cost of reaching a higher performance reacts more...

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Do university policies matter? : effects of course policies on performance ; conference paper

Beltz, Philipp; Link, Susanne; Ostermaier, Andreas - 2013

We benefit from the Bologna reform to show how course and program policies affect academic achievement. We examine two similar programs at the business school of a major European university, which were both reformed. Time lags in the reforms allow us to estimate the difference in the differences...

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Early life adversity and children's competence development : evidence from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk ; conference paper

Blomeyer, Dorothea; Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred; … - 2013

This paper investigates the role of early life adversity and home resources in terms of competence formation and school achievement based on data from an epidemiological cohort study following 364 children from birth to adolescence. Results indicate that organic and psychosocial risks present in...

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Student assessment and grade retention : evidence from a natural experiment ; conference paper

Kimura, Marlies; Ochsen, Carsten - 2014

In Germany and many other countries, students are tracked into various secondary school types. This paper studies whether parents or teachers assess students potential educational performance more adequately. Educational attainment is measured by grade retention rates. We take advantage of a...

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Extracurricular educational programs and school readiness : evidence from a quasi-experiment with preschool children ; conference paper

Makles, Anna; Schneider, Kerstin - 2014

The paper adds to the literature on extracurricular early childhood education and child development by exploiting …

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The effect of early childhood language training programs on the contemporary formation of grammar skills : conference paper

Kamhöfer, Daniel A. - 2014 - Preliminary

While there is a big literature on the benefits of pre-school education, only little is known why kindergarten …-school programs. In order to shed light into the black box of kindergarten education, I am using the German National Educational Panel …

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