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Inequality of educational opportunities and the role of learning intensity : evidence from a quasi-experiment in Germany

Camarero Garcia, Sebastian - 2018

Over the 2000s, many federal states in Germany shortened the duration of secondary school by one year while keeping the …

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The PISA shock, socioeconomic inequality, and school reforms in Germany

Davoli, Maddalena; Entorf, Horst - 2018

In Germany, the poor performance in PISA 2000 stimulated a heated public debate and a strong policy response. The …

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The distributional effects of early school stratification : non-parametric evidence from Germany

Roller, Marcus; Steinberg, Daniel - 2017

educational policy and science. We exploit a unique variation in Lower Saxony, Germany, where performance based tracking was …

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The effect of early childhood language training programs on the contemporary formation of grammar skills : conference paper

Kamhöfer, Daniel A. - 2014 - Preliminary

While there is a big literature on the benefits of pre-school education, only little is known why kindergarten attendance improves later-life outcomes. This is partly because most studies analyze the effect of complete 2 years pre-school programs. In order to shed light into the black box of...

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Do university policies matter? : effects of course policies on performance ; conference paper

Beltz, Philipp; Link, Susanne; Ostermaier, Andreas - 2013

We benefit from the Bologna reform to show how course and program policies affect academic achievement. We examine two similar programs at the business school of a major European university, which were both reformed. Time lags in the reforms allow us to estimate the difference in the differences...

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Early life adversity and children's competence development : evidence from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk ; conference paper

Blomeyer, Dorothea; Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred; … - 2013

This paper investigates the role of early life adversity and home resources in terms of competence formation and school achievement based on data from an epidemiological cohort study following 364 children from birth to adolescence. Results indicate that organic and psychosocial risks present in...

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Total instructional time exposure and student achievement : an extreme bounds analysis based on German state-level variation

Mandel, Philipp; Süssmuth, Bernd - 2011

Using pooled data on instructional time and student performance by subject, our study finds evidence for the school inputs-student achievement relationship for German states. This finding is robust both to the inclusion of state fixed effects and in an extensive extreme bounds analysis. It...

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Kleine Klassen und gute Luft : warum sind die Grundschulen auf dem Land besser?

Birkenfeld, Florian - 2008

ländlichen Grundschulen in Deutschland. Verwendet wird eine Dreiebenenanalyse, um nach und nach den vermeintlichen Stadt …

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The intergenerational transmission of educational attainment in East and West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Trübswetter, Parvati - 2011

the fall of the iron curtain in East Germany and compare the relevance of parental educational background for secondary … schooling outcomes in East and West Germany. Based on data from the German Mikrozensus we find that educational mobility is … lower in East than in West Germany and that it has been falling in East Germany after unification. While the educational …

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Educational Effects of Early or Later Secondary School Tracking in Germany

Mühlenweg, Andrea - 2018

This paper examines educational outcomes of pupils selected to secondary school types by different tracking regimes in a German state: Pupils are alternatively streamed after fourth grade or after sixth grade. Regression results indicate that, estimated on the mean, there are no negative effects...

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