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Becker, Sascha O.; Nagler, Markus; Woessmann, Ludger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of … fixed effects account for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, education – but not income or urbanization – is …

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Beyond the Average: Peer Heterogeneity and Intergenerational Transmission of Education

Chakraborty, Tanika; Nottmeyer, Olga; Schüller, Simone; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

of peer effect we restrict to no-child-adult-peers who completed their education much before the children in our sample …

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Kick It Like Özil? Decomposing the Native-Migrant Education Gap

Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; Schüller, Simone - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We investigate second generation migrants and native children at several stages in the German education system to …

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Kick it like Özil? Decomposing the native-migrant education gap

Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; Schüller, Simone - 2012

We investigate second generation migrants and native children at several stages in the German education system to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283938

School Re-Openings after Summer Breaks in Germany Did Not Increase SARS-CoV-2 Cases

Isphording, Ingo E.; Lipfert, Marc; Pestel, Nico - 2020

This paper studies the effect of the end of school summer breaks on SARS-CoV-2 cases in Germany. We exploit variation in the staggered timing of summer breaks across federal states which allows us to implement an event study design. We base our analysis on official daily counts of confirmed...

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Schools under Mandatory Testing Can Mitigate the Spread of SARS-CoV-2

Isphording, Ingo E.; Diederichs, Marc; van Ewijk, Reyn; … - 2021

We use event-study models based on staggered summer vacations in Germany to estimate the effect of school re-openings after the summer of 2021 on the spread of SARS-CoV-2. Estimations are based on daily counts of confirmed coronavirus infections across all 401 German counties. Our results are...

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Are There No Wage Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Germany? A Reassessment

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2021

This study replicates and challenges the finding of zero wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany by Pischke and von Wachter (Review of Economics and Statistics, 90(3) 2008, 592-598), which is unusual in the literature yet widely cited and until now uncontradicted. I document that this...

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Migration and University Education: An Empirical (Macro) Link

Akkoyunlu, Sule; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2022

Distinguishing between short-run and long-run outcomes we provide new insight into the relationship between education … university education in Turkey and migration to Germany. We implement bounds testing procedures to ascertain the long …-linear long-run and short-run relationship between home country university education and Turkish migration to Germany over 1970 …

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A Sorting Hat that Fails? The transition from primary to secondary school in Germany

Schnepf, Sylke - 2002

Germany ranks lowest regarding educational equalities among OECD countries, as the recently published PISA ‘Programme of International Student Assessment’ data revealed (ref. PISA 2000). This might be due to the remarkable German transition process from primary to secondary school where...

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Overview of Child Well-Being in Germany: Policy towards a supportive environment for children

Bertram, Hans; *UNICEF - 2007

Children’s opportunities to develop according to their talents and competencies and to establish trust in the adults with whom they live, their neighbourhoods, kindergardens, schools and municipalities crucially influence the future of the society in which they grow up. Yet, international...

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