We analyze the causal effect of education on old-age cognitive abilities using German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data … individual reaches in an ultra-short intelligence test. We explain this score, using instrumented education. Instrumental …). Using variations in education policy in the German federal states we are able to instrument education for three groups of …

While there is a big literature on the benefits of pre-school education, only little is known why kindergarten …-school programs. In order to shed light into the black box of kindergarten education, I am using the German National Educational Panel …

We estimate the effects of college education on female fertility – a so far understudied margin of education, which we … instrument by arguably exogenous variation induced through college expansions. While college education reduces the probability of … becoming a mother, college-educated mothers have slightly more children than mothers without a college education. Unfolding the …