Following German reunification the East German states were confronted with the need to adapt their schooling system to quality criteria settled by the western states. Most importantly this included an extension of high school education by one year. We use this variation in high school duration...

Vor dem Hintergrund des sich in Deutschland vollziehenden demographischen Wandels steht das deutsche Gesundheitswesen vor großen Herausforderungen. Dies betrifft in besonderem Maße die im Rahmen der Gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung erbrachte Versorgung mit Gesundheitsleistungen. Während die...

To increase employee participation in training activities, the German government introduced a large-scale training voucher program in 2008 that reduces training fees by half. Based on a randomized field experiment, this paper analyzes whether providing information about the existence and the...

To increase employee participation in training activities, the German government introduced a large-scale training voucher program in 2008 that reduces training fees by half. Based on a randomized field experiment, this paper analyzes whether providing information about the existence and the...

Individuals with more years of education generally acquire more training later on in life. Such a relationship may be due to skills learned in early periods increasing returns to educational investments in later periods. This paper addresses the question whether the complementarity between...

The introduction of the German parental leave benefit (Elterngeld) applied to all children born on 1 January, 2007 or later. The Elterngeld considerably changed the amount of transfers to families during the first two years postpartum. We show that the incentives created by using a cut-off date...

To increase employee participation in training activities, the German government introduced a large-scale training voucher program in 2008 that reduces training fees by half. Based on a randomized field experiment, this paper analyzes whether providing information about the existence and the...

Individuals with more years of education generally acquire more training later on in life. Such a relationship may be due to skills learned in early periods increasing returns to educational investments in later periods. This paper addresses the question whether the complementarity between...

School entry regulations lead to differences in the age when children start school. While previous literature estimated the effects of age at school entry for compliers with school entry regulations, we look at non-compliers, namely those who enter school one year before the official entry date....

[Einleitung:] Die umfassende Bildungsexpansion, die in Deutschland seit den 1960er Jahre vonstatten ging, hat dazu geführt, dass deutschlandweit nur noch jeder zehnte Schüler an einer Hauptschule lernt und sich die Rolle der Hauptschule und die Stellung von Hauptschulabsolventen im Zeitablauf...