Pop-Eleches and Urquiola (2013) apply a regression discontinuity to the Romanian secondary school system, and notably find that (a) students who go to a better school get higher scores on an exam used for university admission, (b) parents of students who get into a better school help their kids...

Benjamin W. Arold prepared this study while he was working at the Center for Economics of Education at the ifo Institute. The study was completed in March 2022 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the LMU Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays that...

Eine technologisch leistungsfähige und innovative Volkswirtschaft basiert auf einer großen Zahl qualifizierter Menschen. Ein Bildungssystem sollte daher möglichst viele junge Menschen zu möglichst hohen Ausbildungsabschlüssen führen, ohne dabei die Qualität der Ausbildung und die...