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High school and exam scores : does their predictive validity for academic performance vary with programme selectivity?

Silva, Pedro Luis; Sá, Carla; Biscaia, Ricardo; … - 2022

Students are admitted into higher education based on their past performance. This paper compares two measures of past cognitive skills: teacher and national exam scores. By using a nationwide dataset, we look at how the predictive power of teacher assessment and exam scores for selecting...

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Is ability tracking (really) responsible for educational inequalities in achievement? : a comparison between the country states Bavaria and Hesse in Germany

Esser, Hartmut; Relikowski, Ilona - 2015

states Bavaria and Hesse in Germany. The results support the presumptions of the Model of Ability Tracking: If school effects …

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Best and brightest? : the impact of student visa restrictiveness on who attends college in the US

Chen, Mingyu; Howell, Jessica; Smith, Jonathan - 2022

, before the COVID-19 pandemic, student visa applicants already faced an approximately 27 percent refusal rate that varies by …. Using an instrumental variables approach, we find that a higher anticipated F-1 student visa refusal rate decreases the … international student enrollment in the US. The decreases are larger among international students with higher measured academic …

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More teachers, smarter students? : potential side effects of the German educational expansion

Westphal, Matthias - 2017

In this paper, I evaluate potential side effects of the educational expansion in Germany on the learning outcomes of …In dieser Studie evaluiere ich mögliche Nebeneffekte der weitestgehend abgeschlossenen Bildungsexpansion in Deutschland …

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Gender differences in graduate degree choices

Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2024

While gender differences in the decision of what to study at undergraduate level are much studied, there is relatively little attention paid to subsequent study decisions of graduates. Given the increased importance of graduate education in recent decades, these decisions can have major labour...

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Improving skills and their use in Germany

Fuentes, Andrés; Lehmann, Stephanie; Kim, Eun Jung - 2018

help workers adapt to new technologies and globalisation. In Germany cognitive skills among adults are above OECD average … Survey of Germany (http://www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/economic-survey-germany.htm) …

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Cities Drifting Apart : Heterogeneous Outcomes of Decentralizing Public Education

Brutti, Zelda - 2016

that autonomy has had on student test scores across municipalities, using a regression discontinuity design and fixed …

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Mögliche Auswirkungen des Krieges in der Ukraine im deutschen Bildungssystem : Kapazitätsbedarfe bei einer Flucht von 3,5 Prozent und 5 Prozent der Minderjährigen aus der Ukraine n...

Geis-Thöne, Wido - 2022

Germany. On 5 May 2022, around 242,000 underaged refugee from Ukraine were registered in Germany and the influx of refugees …Vor dem Hintergrund des russischen Angriffskriegs suchen immer mehr Familien aus der Ukraine Schutz in Deutschland. Am … 5. Mai 2022 waren rund 242.000 geflüchtete Minderjährige aus der Ukraine in Deutschland registriert und die …

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Vom zweiten auf den ersten Arbeitsmarkt : der Erfolg aktiver arbeitsmarktpolitischer Maßnahmen

Knapp, Matthias - 2005 - 1. Auflage

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Germany's 2005 welfare reform : evaluating key characteristics with a focus on immigrants

Walter, Thomas - 2013

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