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The impact of education on personality: Evidence from a German high school reform

Dahmann, Sarah; Anger, Silke - 2014

This paper investigates the short-term effects of a reduction in the length of high school on students' personality traits using a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment. Starting in 2001, academic-track high school (Gymnasium) was reduced from nine...

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How does education improve cognitive skills? Instructional time versus timing of instruction

Dahmann, Sarah - 2015

This paper investigates two mechanisms through which education may affect cognitive skills in adolescence: the role of instructional quantity and the timing ofinstruction with respect to age. To identify causal effects, I exploit a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a...

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The Impact of Education on Personality: Evidence from a German High School Reform

Dahmann, Sarah; Anger, Silke - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014

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Risk aversion and the teaching profession: An analysis including different forms of risk aversion, different control groups, selection and socialization effects

Ayaita, Adam; Stürmer, Kathleen - 2019

Risk aversion might affect current and potential teachers' reaction to reforms, in particular payment reforms. However …, evidence on teachers' risk aversion in comparison to other occupations is limited. The present study is based on twelve waves … to risk aversion with respect to occupational career. Teachers score higher in risk aversion even than other civil …

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Fiskalische und individuelle Nettoerträge und Renditen von Bildungsinvestitionen im jungen Erwachsenenalter

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Stichnoth, Holger - 2019

In dieser Studie werden auf der Basis einer Weiterentwicklung des ZEW Mikrosimulationsmodells des Abgaben- Steuer- und Transfersystems fiskalische und individuelle Nettoerträge und Renditen von Bildungsinvestitionen für junge Erwachsene bezogen auf das Jahr 2016 untersucht und mit früheren...

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Health effects of instruction intensity: Evidence from a natural experiment in German high-schools

Quis, Johanna Sophie; Reif, Simon - 2017

A large literature aims to establish a causal link between education and health using changes in compulsory schooling laws. It is however unclear how well more education is operationalized by marginal increases in school years. We shed a new light on this discussion by analyzing the health...

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The long-run effects of sports club vouchers for primary school children

Marcus, Jan; Siedler, Thomas; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2021

Starting in 2009, the German state of Saxony distributed sports club membership vouchers among all 33,000 third graders in the state. The policy's objective was to encourage them to develop a long-term habit of exercising. In 2018, we carried out a large register-based survey among several...

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Tracking and the intergenerational transmission of education: Evidence from a natural experiment

von Werder, Marten; Lange, Simon - 2016

Proponents of tracking argue that the creation of more homogeneous classes increases effciency while opponents point out that tracking aggravates initial differences between students. We estimate the effects on the intergenerational transmission of education of a reform that delayed tracking by...

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Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment in Germany: The Last Five Decades

Heineck, Guido; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2007

Over the last decades the German education system underwent numerous reforms in order to improve "equality of opportunity", i.e. to guarantee all pupils equal access to higher education. At the same time internationally comparative evidence yields that Germany features particularly low...

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Expected Future Earnings, Taxation, and University Enrollment: A Microeconometric Model with Uncertainty

Fossen, Frank M.; Glocker, Daniela - 2009

Taxation changes the expectations of prospective university students about their future level and uncertainty of after-tax income. To estimate the impact of taxes on university enrollment, we develop and estimate a structural microeconometric model, in which a high-school graduate decides to...

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