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Family and gender still matter : the heterogeneity of returns to education in Germany

Schnabel, Isabel; Schnabel, Reinhold - 2002

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Educational reform and disadvantaged students : are they better off or worse off?

Bishop, John H. (contributor); Mañé, Ferran (contributor) - 2004

graduation tests, (4) state defined minimums for the total number of courses students must take and pass to get a high school …

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Top of the class : the importance of ordinal rank

Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix - 2014 - This version: 10 May 2014

This paper examines the long-run impact of ordinal rank during primary school on productivity using comprehensive English administrative data. Identification is obtained from variation in test score distributions across cohorts and subjects, such that the same score relative to the class mean...

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The effects of free secondary school track choice : a disaggregated synthetic control approach

Osikominu, Aderonke; Pfeifer, Gregor; Strohmaier, Kristina - 2021

We exploit a recent state-level reform in Germany that granted parents the right to decide on the highest secondary … rates to the higher school tracks increased substantially, with stronger responses among children from richer districts …. Simultaneously, grade repetition in the first grades of secondary school increased dramatically, suggesting that parents choose …

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Decomposing migrant self-selection : education, occupation, and unobserved abilities

Kauppinen, Ilpo; Poutvaara, Panu - 2023

We analyze self-selection and sorting of emigrants from Finland, using full-population administrative data from Statistics Finland. We analyze emigration events lasting at least five years and decompose migrant self-selection into education, occupation, and unobserved abilities. Our analysis...

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Training and individual performance in Europe: evidence from microeconometric studies

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2000

Learning at school and university and also at the work place has become more important in the knowledge-based economy. This paper provides a critical review of recent econometric work on the determinants and impacts of training in Europe. Training has non negligible positive effects for firms...

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