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strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …
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The ifo Education Survey is a representative opinion survey of the German voting-age population on education topics … that has been conducted annually since 2014. It covers public preferences on a wide range of education policy issues … ranging from early childhood education, schools, and apprenticeships to university education and life-long learning. The …
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Union. In the first three chapters we address the micro level of individual life courses: education, employment and income …
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the form of in-kind collective expenditure (e.g., education, defense, infrastructure). The dominant assumption in the …, we find that public education spending goes disproportionately to the bottom half of the income distribution. A lump …-sum allocation provides a good approximation. Moving beyond the cross-section, we find that public education expenditure is …
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on the conceptual framework of an education production function, we cover evidence on child, parent, and school inputs …
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This paper analyzes the returns to training that was co-financed by the German voucher program Bildungsprämie. The estimation strategy compares outcomes of participants in voucher training with voucher recipients who intended to participate in training, but did not do so because of a random...
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We repeatedly elicit beliefs about the returns to study effort in a panel survey of students of a large university course. A behavioral model of quasi-hyperbolic discounting and malleable beliefs yields the prediction that the dynamics of return beliefs mirrors the importance of exerting...
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As skills of labor-market entrants are usually not directly observed by employers, individuals acquire skill signals. To study which signals are valued by employers, we simultaneously and independently randomize a broad range of skill signals on pairs of resumes of fictitious applicants among...
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Academic education is generally rewarded by employers, but what happens to graduates if they are trained for two years …, we analyze labor market entries of individuals eligible for higher education, who either opted for newly introduced short … fixed-term employment at the bachelor’s and the master’s level. Overall, ‘general’ academic education provides advantages …
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education for college graduates and college dropouts. Completing a five-year college degree is found to be associated with an …
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