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The impact of education on personality : evidence from a German high school reform
Dahmann, Sarah; Anger, Silke - 2014
traits using a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment. Starting in 2001 …, academic-track high school (Gymnasium) was reduced from nine to eight years in most of Germany's federal states, leaving the … point to important heterogeneous effects. In addition to differences between East and West Germany, we find that male …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010360371
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The impact of education on personality : evidence from a German high school reform
Dahmann, Sarah; Anger, Silke - 2014
traits using a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment. Starting in 2001 …, academic-track high school (Gymnasium) was reduced from nine to eight years in most of Germany's federal states, leaving the … point to important heterogeneous effects. In addition to differences between East and West Germany, we find that male …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350412
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Are children's socio-emotional skills shaped by parental health shocks?
García-Miralles, Esteban; Gensowski, Miriam - 2022
Child skills are shaped by parental investments. Health shocks to parents can affect these investments and their children's skills. This paper estimates causal effects of severe parental health shocks on child socio-emotional skills. Drawing on a large-scale survey linked to hospital records, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013337549
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The causal effects of an intensified curriculum on cognitive skills : evidence from a natural experiment
Andrietti, Vincenzo - 2016
This paper exploits a unique universal educational policy - implemented in most German states between 2001 and 2008 - that compressed the academic-track high school curriculum into a (one year) shorter time span, thereby increasing time of instruction and share of curriculum taught per grade....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011473274
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How does education improve cognitive skills? : instructional time versus timing of instruction
Dahmann, Sarah - 2015
carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment: between 2001 and 2007, the academic-track high school … (Gymnasium) was reduced by one year in most of Germany's federal states, leaving the overall curriculum unchanged. To investigate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011287017
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Long run effects of universal childcare on personality traits
Bach, Maximilian; Koebe, Josefine; Peter, Frauke - 2019
children of three years and older in Germany. However, severe shortages in the former-West meant that many children could not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012035458
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The Impact of Education on Personality : Evidence from a German High School Reform
Dahmann, Sarah C. - 2014
traits using a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment. Starting in 2001 …, academic-track high school (Gymnasium) was reduced from nine to eight years in most of Germany's federal states, leaving the … point to important heterogeneous effects. In addition to differences between East and West Germany, we find that male …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054596
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The social side of early human capital formation: using a field experiment to estimate the causal impact of neighborhoods
List, John A.; Momeni, Fatemeh; Zenou, Yves - 2020
The behavioral revolution within economics has been largely driven by psychological insights, with the sister sciences playing a lesser role. This study leverages insights from sociology to explore the role of neighborhoods on human capital formation at an early age. We do so by estimating the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389402
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The Impact of Education on Personality: Evidence from a German High School Reform
Dahmann, Sarah; Anger, Silke - 2014
traits using a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment. Starting in 2001 …, academic-track high school (Gymnasium) was reduced from nine to eight years in most of Germany's federal states, leaving the … point to important heterogeneous effects. In addition to differences between East and West Germany, we find that male …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352303
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The impact of education on personality: Evidence from a German high school reform
Dahmann, Sarah; Anger, Silke - 2014
traits using a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment. Starting in 2001 …, academic-track high school (Gymnasium) was reduced from nine to eight years in most of Germany's federal states, leaving the … point to important heterogeneous e ects. In addition to di erences between East and West Germany, we nd that male students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010368338