We study the effects of random assignment to coeducational andsingle-sex classes on the academic performance of female highschool students. Our estimation results show that single-sexschooling improves the performance of female students inmathematics. This positive effect increases if the...

Parental involvement in their children’s lives can have a lasting impact on wellbeing.More involved parents convey to their children that they are interested intheir development, and this in turn signals to the child that their future is valued.However, what happens in socio-economically...

This paper investigates the role that discrimination plays in the educational marginalizationof foreign youth commonly observed in European countries with a long guestworkertradition. Economic theory offers two basic explanations for discrimination ofthis form: taste-based discrimination arising...

Nicht nur der höchste berufsqualifizierende Abschluss – wie oft angenommen – sondern der gesamte Bildungspfad wirkt sich auf den Erfolg im weiteren Erwerbsleben aus. Im Projekt wird die individuelle Zusammensetzung von Bildungskarrieren und deren Auswirkungen im Erwerbsverlauf untersucht....