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Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2022

on the conceptual framework of an education production function, we cover evidence on child, parent, and school inputs …

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Persecution and Escape

Becker, Sascha O.; Lindenthal, Volker; Mukand, Sharun; … - 2023

We study the role of professional networks in facilitating emigration of Jewish academics dismissed from their positions by the Nazi government. We use individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of dismissals to estimate causal effects. Academics with more ties to early émigrés...

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Persecution and Escape

Becker, Sascha; Lindenthal, Volker; Mukand, Sharun; … - 2023

We study the role of professional networks in facilitating emigration of Jewish academics dismissed from their positions by the Nazi government. We use individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of dismissals to estimate causal eects. Academics with more ties to early émigrés...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014467880

Additional Career Assistance and Educational Outcomes for Students in Lower Track Secondary Schools

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Licklederer, Stefanie - 2017

education, the grade point average is unaffected and the likelihood of completing a Middle Track Secondary School degree falls …

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Top of the class: The importance of ordinal rank

Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix - 2019

This paper establishes a new fact about educational production: ordinal academic rank during primary school has lasting impacts on secondary school achievement that are independent of underlying ability. Using data on the universe of English school students, we exploit naturally occurring...

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Private Supplementary Tutoring in Turkey Recent Evidence on Its Various Aspects

Tansel, Aysit; Bircan, Fatma - 2007

education, determinants of the demand for services of the PTCs, cost of PTCs and evidence on the effectiveness of PTCs …

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Growing Up in Ethnic Enclaves: Language Proficiency and Educational Attainment of Immigrant Children

Danzer, Alexander M.; Feuerbaum, Carsten; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2018

Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children\'s acquisition of host-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across German regions during the 1960s and 1970s...

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Class Rank and Long-Run Outcomes

Denning, Jeffrey T.; Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix - 2018

This paper considers a fundamental question about the school environment - what are the long run effects of a student\'s ordinal rank in elementary school? Using administrative data from all public school students in Texas, we show that students with a higher third grade academic rank,...

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Private Tutoring Expenditures in Turkey

Tansel, Aysıt; Bircan, Fatma - 2004

. The determinants examined within a Tobit model framework include total household expenditure, education levels of parents … and other household characteristics. Such analysis of the household behavior of attempting to provide better education to … their children will highlight the determinants of the demand for education and the intergenerational transfers in Turkey. …

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Migration, remittances and educational outcomes: The case of Haiti

Bredl, Sebastian - 2009

. Household wealth, captured via an asset index, is found to have a signi?cant impact on education as well, supporting the idea …

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