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...

Based on comparable data for eleven sub-Saharan African countries with especially high rates of orphanhood, we examine how orphanhood affects children’s educational and health outcomes. Using household fixed-effects to control for influences at the household level, we show that orphans do not...

We identify effects of age at school entry (ASE) on the development of child temperament. Our analysis is based on psychometric measures from a longitudinal cohort study of children in the Rhine-Neckar region in central Germany. In children with a higher ASE due to a birthday late in the year,...

We examine how parental health shocks affect children’s non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data base, we draw on significant changes in selfreported parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to identify effects on outcomes for children at ages of three...

Die vorliegende Studie entsteht im Kontext des in Deutschland bestehenden Fachkräftemangels. Dieser bezieht sich vor allem auf ausgebildete Akademikerinnen und Akademiker in den für das deutsche Innovationssystem bedeutenden Kernbereichen Mathematik, Informatik, Naturwissenschaften und...

Ziel dieses Diskussionspapieres ist es, ein Indikatoren-Set zusammenzustellen, das im Rahmen einer routinemäßigen Evaluation der hausarztzentrierten Versorgung (HzV) eingesetzt werden kann. Dieses Indikatoren-Set soll die Qualitäts- und Wirtschaftlichkeitsziele der HzV möglichst umfassend...

In this study, we analyze health effects of a recent education reform in Germany exposing students to increased schooling intensity. The reform shortened the higher secondary education track by one year. As the overall curriculum required for graduation was held constant, this led to an increase...

Ziel dieses Diskussionspapieres ist es, ein Indikatoren-Set zusammenzustellen, das im Rahmen einer routinemäßigen Evaluation der hausarztzentrierten Versorgung (HzV) eingesetzt werden kann. Dieses Indikatoren-Set soll die Qualitäts- und Wirtschaftlichkeitsziele der HzV möglichst umfassend...

This paper compares the work attachment of French and German women after childbirth. Both fertility and employment of mothers are higher in France than in Germany. Since the sample of mothers deciding on employment after a child is born might not be representative for all women, we take account...