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What drives the reversal of the gender education gap? : evidence from Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Schwientek, Caroline - 2015
We study the mechanisms that are associated with the gender education gap and its reversal in Germany. We focus on … impacts boys' attainment more than girls'. The gender education gap in tertiary education is correlated with the development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280850
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What drives the reversal of the gender education gap? : evidence from Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Schwientek, Caroline - 2015
We study the mechanisms that are associated with the gender education gap and its reversal in Germany. We focus on … impacts boys' attainment more than girls'. The gender education gap in tertiary education is correlated with the development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283124
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What drives the reversal of the gender education gap? : evidence from Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Schwientek, Caroline - 2015
We study the mechanisms that are associated with the gender education gap and its reversal in Germany. We focus on … impacts boys' attainment more than girls'. The gender education gap in tertiary education is correlated with the development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010529904
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What Drives the Reversal of the Gender Education Gap? Evidence from Germany
Riphahn, Regina T. - 2015
We study the mechanisms that are associated with the gender education gap and its reversal in Germany. We focus on … impacts boys' attainment more than girls'. The gender education gap in tertiary education is correlated with the development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013020579
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The impact of family composition on educational achievement
Chen, Stacey H.; Chen, Yen-chien; Liu, Jin-tan - 2014
Parents preferring sons tend to go on to have more children until one or more boys are born, and to concentrate … investment in boys for a given sibsize. Therefore, having a brother may affect child outcomes in two ways: indirectly, by … in explaining first-born boys' education levels. In contrast, both effects for first-born girls are evident but go in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010412292
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What drives the reversal of the gender education gap? : evidence from Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Schwientek, Caroline - In: Applied economics 47 (2015) 52/54, pp. 5748-5775
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What drives the reversal of the gender education gap? : evidence from Germany
Schwientek, Caroline; Riphahn, Regina T. - In: Essays on education and family economics, (pp. 18-59). 2016
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The effect of family income during childhood on later-life attainment : evidence from Germany
Jenkins, Stephen; Schluter, Christian - 2002
We examine the impact of family income during childhood on the type of secondary school that German children attend, a good indicator of their lifetime socioeconomic attainment. By contrast with several US child outcome studies, we find that late-childhood income is a more important determinant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414002
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The effect of family income during childhood on later-life attainment : evidence from Germany
Jenkins, Stephen; Schluter, Christian - 2002
We examine the impact of family income during childhood on the type of secondary school that German children attend, a good indicator of their lifetime socioeconomic attainment. By contrast with several US child outcome studies, we find that late-childhood income is a more important determinant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437043
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Parental labor market success and children's education attainment
Ochsen, Carsten - 2008
This study examines the effects of parental labor market activities on children's education attainment. In contrast to the existing literature we consider parental experiences until the children graduate from school. In addition, the effects of the regional economic environment during teacher's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003886300