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Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018

returns and costs explains educational inequality in Germany. …

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Educational inequality and public policy preferences : evidence from representative survey experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018

To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey … experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality … strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …

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Discrimination on the child care market : a nationwide fielde experiment

Hermes, Henning; Lergetporer, Philipp; Mierisch, Fabian; … - 2023

We provide the first causal evidence of discrimination against migrants seeking child care. We send emails from fictitious parents to 18, 000 early child care centers across Germany, asking if there is a slot available and how to apply. Randomly varying names to signal migration background, we...

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Does information about inequality and discrimination in early child care affect policy preferences?

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We investigate public preferences for equity-enhancing policies in access to early child care, using a survey experiment with a representative sample of the German population (n ≈ 4,800). We observe strong misperceptions about migrant-native inequalities in early child care that vary by...

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