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Do guns displace books? : the impact of compulsory military service on educational attainment
Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Paloyo, Alfredo R.; … - 2011
regulations associated with the introduction of conscription in Germany in 1956. We estimate conscription to increase the … Wehrpflicht in Deutschland im Jahre 1956 in einem Regression-Discontinuity-Design aus. Unsere Schätzergebnisse zeigen, dass … Wehrdienst die Wahrscheinlichkeit eines Universitätsabschlusses erhöht. …
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Do guns displace books? : the impact of compulsory military service on educational attainment
Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Paloyo, Alfredo R.; … - 2011
regulations associated with the introduction of conscription in Germany in 1956. We estimate conscription to increase the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009307337
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Military conscription and university enrolment : evidence from Italy
Di Pietro, Giorgio - 2009
Given that a growing number of countries have abolished or are considering the abolition of military conscription, understanding the consequences of this measure is of increased importance. In this paper we study the effect of the suppression of compulsory military service on university...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003860425
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Conscription and educational outcomes : quasi-experimental evidence from the Republic of Cyprus
Savčić, Ružica; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos; Xefteris, … - 2020
Peacetime military service has both positive and negative effects on human capital. While it depreciates academic abilities it also enhances non-cognitive skills. The net effect of conscription is hard to identify due to issues of self-selection, endogenous timing and omitted variables bias. We...
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Does more generous student aid increase enrolment rates into higher education? : Evaluating the German student aid reform of 2001
Baumgartner, Hans J. (contributor);  … - 2006
(BAfoeG) in Germany. We evaluate the effectiveness of a recent reform of student aid that substantially increased the amount …
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Better together? : heterogeneous effects of tracking on student achievement
Matthewes, Sönke Hendrik - 2018
This study estimates mean and distributional effects of early between-school ability tracking on student achievement. For identification, I exploit heterogeneity in tracking regimes between German federal states. After comprehensive primary school, about 40% of students are selected for the...
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Quotas and quality : the effect of H-1B visa restrictions on the pool of prospective undergraduate students from abroad
Kato, Takao; Sparber, Chad - 2010
In deliberating whether to pursue an undergraduate education in the US, a foreign student takes into consideration the expected probability of securing US employment after graduation. The H-1B visa provides a primary means of legal employment for college-educated foreign-nationals. In October...
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"A" is the aim?
Danilowicz-Gösele, Kamila - 2016
This paper analyzes professors' effect from a fundamental first-year course in Economics on students' later performance in follow-on courses with a special attention given to the problem of self-selection bias of students toward certain professors. Based on an extensive dataset consisting of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011563302
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Gender separation and academic achievement in higher education : evidence from a natural experiment in Iran
Kamal, Zahra - 2021
In 2011, a large university in Tehran launched a policy of gender separation at classroom level without publicly announcing it beforehand. The current paper utilizes this natural experiment to identify the causal impact of participation in single-sex versus mixed classrooms on students’...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012619812
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Did the "Bologna Process" achieve its goals? : 20 years of empirical evidence on student enrolment, study success and labour market outcomes
Kroher, Martina; Leuze, Kathrin; Thomsen, Stephan L.; … - 2021
In 1999, the "Bologna Process" was initiated to improve higher education enrolment, study success and students' employability across Europe, mainly by introducing the two-cycle degree structure of Bachelor (BA) and Master (MA). More than 20 years later, we examine whether these goals were met by...
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