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Persistence of the school entry age effect in a system of flexible tracking

Puhani, Patrick A.; Weber, Andrea Maria - 2007

In Germany, the streaming of students into an academic or nonacademic track at age 10 can be revised at later stages of secondary education. To investigate the importance of such revisions, we use administrative data on the student population in the German state of Hessen to measure the...

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Educational effects of alternative secondary school tracking regimes in Germany

Weber, Andrea Maria - 2006

This paper examines educational outcomes of pupils selected to secondary school types by different tracking regimes in a German state: The traditional regime of streaming pupils after fourth grade of elementary school is compared to a regime in which pupils are selected into different secondary...

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Does the early bird catch the worm? Instrumental variable estimates of educational effects of age of school entry in Germany

Puhani, Patrick A.; Weber, Andrea Maria - 2005

We estimate the effect of age of school entry on educational attainment using three different data sets for Germany, sampling pupils at the end of primary school, in the middle of secondary school and several years after secondary school. Results are obtained based on instrumental variable...

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The effect of active labor market programs on not-yet treated unemployed individuals

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Bergemann, Annette; Caliendo, Marco - 2008

Labor market programs may affect unemployed individuals' behavior before they enroll. Such ex ante effects are hard to identify without model assumptions. We develop a novel method that relates self-reported perceived treatment rates and job-search behavioral outcomes, like the reservation wage,...

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Living in two neighborhoods: Social interaction effects in the lab

Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs; Gächter, Simon - 2009

interaction effects. We conduct a laboratory experiment that avoids the identification problem present in the field and allows us …

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Whose children gain from starting school later? Evidence from Hungary

Hámori, Szilvia; Kollo, Janos - 2011

We look at the effect of school starting age on standardized test scores using data covering all grade four and grade eight students in Hungary. Instrumental variables estimates of the local average treatment effect suggest that children generally gain from starting school one year later and the...

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Factors influencing the identification of it indirect costs: A case study

Ghoneim, A - 2008

resource company and confirms the call for a more robust identification process. Inaddition the paper maps each indirect costs … factor to the lifecycle stage(s) in which it occurs andpresents the factors that influence the quality of the identification …

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Network effects, compatibility, and adoption of standards

Grajek, Michał - 2005

best of our knowledge, this is the first model that facilitates the identification in the case of direct network effects …

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Matching DSGE models to data with applications to fiscal and robust monetary policy

Kriwoluzky, Alexander - 2009

the major issue a researcher has to deal with when working with a VAR model and a DSGE model: the identification of the …

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Essays on Identification and Estimation of Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Models.

Iskrev, Nikolay Ivanov - 2008

. This dissertation contributes to the existing body of work by focusing on issues related to parameter identification.In the … used to determine the identifiability, and estimate the parameters of such models. I derive conditions for identification … models, as well as for detecting identification problems.In the third essay I develop a methodology for analyzing …

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