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Pisa : What Makes the Difference? Explaining the Gap in Pisa Test Scores between Finland and Germany
Ammermueller, Andreas - 2008
The huge difference in the level and variance of student performance in the 2000 PISA study between Finland and Germany … scores than Finnish students. The results imply that early streaming in Germany penalizes students in lower school types and … school types. Overall, the variation in test scores can be explained much better by the observable characteristics in Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014071300
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Self-Productivity and Complementarities in Human Development : Evidence from MARS
Blomeyer, Dorothea; Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred; … - 2008
This paper investigates the role of self-productivity and home resources in capability formation from infancy to adolescence. In addition, we study the complementarities between basic cognitive, motor and noncognitive abilities and social as well as academic achievement. Our data are taken from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014214808
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Training, Mobility, and Wages : Specific Versus General Human Capital
Garloff, Alfred - 2008
This paper considers training, mobility decisions and wages together to test for the specificity of human capital contained in continuing training courses. We empirically analyse the relationship between training, mobility and wages in two ways. First, we examine the correlation between training...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012727241
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Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital in Early Childhood
Coneus, Katja; Sprietsma, Maresa - 2009
It is a well-known fact that the level of parents' education is strongly correlated with the educational achievement of their children. In this paper,we shed light on the potential channels through which human capital is transmitted from mothers to their children in early childhood. The main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014206260
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Educational Attainment and Returns to Education in Germany
Ammermueller, Andreas; Weber, Andrea Maria - 2008
Germany in the time period 1985-2002. Returns to education are estimated using Mincer equations. We analyze micro-census data … first time for Germany in such detail. The data indicate an educational expansion, especially for women in West Germany … degree subjects in West than in East Germany, especially for women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014065313
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Human Capital Investment Strategies in Europe
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2011
The paper analyses alternative investment policies and their consequences for the evolution of human capital in Europe based on a model of age dependent skill formation where the life span depends on investments during childhood. What makes the approach special is the analysis of the returns to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124628
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What Accounts for International Differences in Student Performance? : A Re-Examination Using PISA Data
Fuchs, Thomas; Woessmann, Ludger - 2004
We use the PISA student-level achievement database to estimate international education production functions. Student characteristics, family backgrounds, home inputs, resources, teachers and institutions are all significantly related to math, science and reading achievement. Our models account...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262036
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Education policy and equality of opportunity
Schütz, Gabriela; Ursprung, Heinrich W.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2005
We provide a measure of equality of educational opportunity in 54 countries, estimated as the effect of family background on student performance in two international TIMSS tests. We then show how organizational features of the education system affect equality of educational opportunity. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267527
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Apprenticeship Training in Germany - Investment or Productivity Driven?
Zwick, Thomas - 2008
profits. This can be interpreted as a first indication that most establishments in Germany do not invest more in apprentices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012726537
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The Role of Parental Investments for Cognitive and Noncognitive Skill Formation – Evidence for the First 11 Years of Life
Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred; Reuß, Karsten - 2010
This paper examines the impact of parental investments on the development of cognitive, mental and emotional skills during childhood using data from a longitudinal study, the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk, starting at birth. Our work offers three important innovations. First, we use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014195256