We introduce a test of economic competence for German-speaking secondary school students and provide evidence from a … large-scale assessment with 6,230 students from grades 7 to 10. The article presents the development and psychometric … favoring male students, lower scores for students with a migration background, and parents' socioeconomic background being a …

trained, non-traditional students who do not have the formal entry requirement. Using propensity-scoreadjusted regressions and …

In this paper, I evaluate potential side effects of the educational expansion in Germany on the learning outcomes of … today's students. The educational expansion was a demand shock in the labor market of teachers, which could have thus …-affected teacher with an educational expansion teacher leads to a 2 percent reduction in students' test scores. Explorative analyses …