Das Ziel eines jeden Bildungssystems sein muss es sein, allen Kindern weitestgehend unabhängig von ihrem sozioökonomischen Hintergrund die gleichen Möglichkeiten zur Entfaltung ihres Potentials zu bieten. Dass eine vollständige Entkoppelung von Merkmalen sozioökonomischer Herkunft und...

Over the past forty years a tremendous number of women have entered the labormarket, removing stay-home motherhood as the most dominant female occupation. Thelinkage between the change in the labor market and change in family structure has drawna lot of attention from social scientists, and it...

This dissertation includes three empirical essays on development economics and one on the economics of education. The first essay (co-authored by Stephan Klasen) is a contribution to the debate surrounding the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the on-going debate about what international...

This volume was prepared by Jens Ruhose while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes four self-contained chapters that contribute to the understanding of the...