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Institutional Determinants of Intergenerational Education Transmission - Comparing Alternative Mechanisms for Natives and Immigrants

Bauer, Philipp; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2021

associated with early kindergarten attendance, particularly for immigrants. Time of tracking loses statistical significance when … intergenerational transmission of education. We test whether education transmission is higher when children enter kindergarten and … kindergarten and school entry regimes are held constant. Our results are robust to various alternative specifications …

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Institutional Determinants of Intergenerational Education Transmission - Comparing Alternative Mechanisms for Natives and Immigrants

Bauer, Philipp C.; Riphahn, Regina T. - CESifo - 2012

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The Effect of School Starting Age on Special Needs Incidence and Child Development into Adolescence

Balestra, Simone - 2018

Children starting school at older ages consistently exhibit better educational outcomes. In this paper, we underscore child development as a mechanism driving this effect. We study the causal effect of school starting age on a child's probability of developing special educational needs in early...

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Extracurricular Educational Programs and School Readiness : Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment with Preschool Children

Makles, Anna - 2016

This paper adds to the literature on extracurricular early childhood education and child development by exploiting unique data on an educational project in Germany, the Junior University (JU). Utilizing a quasi-experimental study design, we estimate the causal short-run effect of JU enrollment...

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Age at School Entry and Intergenerational Educational Mobility

Bauer, Philipp - 2009

We use Swiss data to test whether intergenerational educational mobility is affected by the age at which children first enter (primary) school. Early age at school entry significantly affects mobility and reduces the relative advantage of children of better educated parents

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Who Benefits from Universal Child Care? Estimating Marginal Returns to Early Child Care Attendance

Cornelißen, Thomas - 2018

In this paper, we examine the heterogeneous treatment effects of a universal child care (preschool) program in Germany by exploiting the exogenous variation in attendance caused by a reform that led to a large staggered expansion across municipalities. Drawing on novel administrative data from...

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Analyzing Educational Achievement Differences between Second-Generation Immigrants : Comparing Germany and German-Speaking Switzerland

Kunz, Johannes - 2014

-speaking Switzerland is greater than in Germany. The impact of the first-generation immigrants' destination decision on their offspring …In this study, I provide evidence that the educational achievement of second-generation immigrants in German … results suggest that the educational system of Switzerland, relative to the German system, enhances the performance of …

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The Causal Effect of Parents' Schooling on Children's Schooling - A Comparison of Estimation Methods

Holmlund, Helena; Lindahl, Mikael; Plug, Erik J. S. - 2021

We review the empirical literature that estimates the causal effect of parent’s schooling on child’s schooling, and conclude that estimates differ across studies. We then consider three explanations for why this is: (a) idiosyncratic differences in data sets; (b) differences in remaining...

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Total Instructional Time Exposure and Student Achievement : An Extreme Bounds Analysis Based on German State-Level Variation

Mandel, Philipp - 2011

Using pooled data on instructional time and student performance by subject, our study finds evidence for the school inputs-student achievement relationship for German states. This finding is robust both to the inclusion of state fixed effects and in an extensive extreme bounds analysis. It...

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Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Home Computers on Academic Achievement among Schoolchildren

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2013

Computers are an important part of modern education, yet large segments of the population – especially low-income and minority children – lack access to a computer at home. Does this impede educational achievement? We test this hypothesis by conducting the largest-ever field experiment...

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