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Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021

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

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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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Child penalties in labour market skills

Jessen, Jonas; Kinne, Lavinia; Battisti, Michele - 2024

controlling for pre-determined characteristics, especially education. Additionally, there is no evidence for worse occupational …

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Training and individual performance in Europe: evidence from microeconometric studies

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2000

has been found in some studies. The incidence and the impact of training depend on the national education and training …

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Persecution and escape

Becker, Sascha O.; Lindenthal, Volker; Mukand, Sharun W.; … - 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 O.; Lindenthal, Volker; Mukand, Sharun W.; … - 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/10014481039

The returns to education for opportunity entrepreneurs, necessity entrepreneurs, and paid employees

Fossen, Frank M.; Büttner, Tobias - 2012

We assess the relevance of formal education for the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between … employment options. We expect differences in the returns to education between these groups because of different levels of control …. We use the German Socio-economic Panel and account for the endogeneity of education and non-random selection. The results …

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Top of the class : the importance of ordinal rank

Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix - 2019 - This version: June 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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Gritty peers

Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Cao, Yaming; Kaya, Ezgi - 2025

We use the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health to explore how high school peers’ grit, a personality trait characterized by perseverance and passion, influences long-term outcomes approximately 15 years after high school. Exploiting random variation within schools across...

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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 in...

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