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Microeconometric Analyses of Education Production in Germany

Piopiunik, Marc - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der …

-contained empirical studies. All studies aim at contributing to the understanding of the determinants of educational outcomes in Germany …

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Quantifying the macroeconomic impact of Covid-19-related school closures through the human capital channel

De la Maisonneuve, Christine; Égert, Balázs; Turner, David - 2023

This paper uses a new measure of human capital, which distinguishes both quality and quantity components, to estimate the long-term effect of the Covid-19-related school closures on aggregate productivity through the human capital channel. Productivity losses build up over time and are estimated...

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The impact of peer ability and heterogeneity on student achievement: Evidence from a natural experiment

Kiss, David - 2011

This paper estimates the impact of peer achievement and variance on math achievement growth. It exploits exogenous variation in peer characteristics generated at the transition to upper-secondary school in a sample of Berlin fifth graders. Parents and schools are barely able to condition their...

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Incentives for Students: Evidence from Two Natural Experiments

Beltz, Philipp; Link, Susanne; Ostermaier, Andreas - 2012

Incentives are widely used to increase people's effort and thus performance. Whileacademic achievement depends heavily on effort, there is little empirical evidence onhow students respond to incentives other than grades and monetary rewards. We drawon two natural experiments that occurred at a...

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Mozart or Pelé? : the effects of teenagers' participation in music and sports

Cabane, Charlotte; Hillenhagen, Adrian; Lechner, Michael - 2015

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Peer gender and mental health

Getik, Demid; Meier, Armando N. - 2020

Adolescent mental health is key for later well-being. Yet, causal evidence on environmental drivers of adolescent … mental health is scant. We study how an important classroom feature - the gender composition in compulsory-school - affects … mental health. We use Swedish administrative data (N=576,285) to link variation in gender composition across classrooms …

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Central Exams as the "Currency" of School Systems: International Evidence on the Complementarity of School Autonomy and Central Exams

Woessmann, Ludger - In: CESifo DICE Report 01 (2003) 4, pp. 46-56

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Central Exams as the "Currency" of School Systems: International Evidence on the Complementarity of School Autonomy and Central Exams

Woessmann, Ludger - In: CESifo DICE Report 1 (2003) 4, pp. 46-56

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The effect of central exit examinations on student achievement : quasi-experimental evidence from TIMSS Germany

Jürges, Hendrik; Schneider, Kerstin; Büchel, Felix - 2003

This paper makes use of the regional variation in schooling legislation within the German secondary education system to estimate the causal effect of central exit examinations on student performance. We propose a difference-in-differences framework that exploits the quasi-experimental nature of...

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Do Tuition Fees Affect Enrollment Behavior? Evidence from a 'Natural Experiment' in Germany

Hübner, Malte - 2009

I use the introduction of tuition fees in seven out of the sixteen German states in 2007 as a natural experiment to …

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