This paper examines the patterns of educational assortative mating in East and West Germany. In the literature it is … mating can lead to polarization and exacerbate economic inequality. For Germany, little is known about actual patterns of … marriage formation along educational lines. Our empirical analysis for Germany shows that educational assortative mating has …

the national performance scores conditional on these observable characteristics, as the reflection of different education … unsatisfactorily by their system of education. Moreover, part of the potential for improvement seems to involve measurable aspects …

the national performance scores conditional on these observable characteristics, as the reflection of different education … unsatisfactorily by their system of education. Moreover, part of the potential for improvement seems to involve measurable aspects …

the market price of the object under consideration. Our estimation results suggest that economics students have both, a …

can be expected to depress the demand for higher education since skill atrophy and the delayed entry into the civilian … avoid the draft, leading to an increase in the demand for tertiary education. To estimate the causal effect of conscription … regulations associated with the introduction of conscription in Germany in 1956. We estimate conscription to increase the …