The degree to which economic status is transmitted from one generation to the next is an important indicator for the inequality of opportunities. One crucial element of intergenerational mobility is the way parents influence the education of their children. Unlike in the UK or in the US, in...

Ohne grundlegende literale, soziale und personale Kompetenzen, die als Grundbildung bezeichnet werden können, ist eine Teilhabe an der Gesellschaft und der Arbeitswelt nicht möglich. Eine Aufgabe der Schulen besteht darin, allen Schülerinnen und Schülern eben diese zur Bewältigung späterer...

This paper examines the effects of increasing the compulsory school leaving (CSL) age from 16 to 18 in Hungary using a regression discontinuity design (RDD) identification strategy. The new CSL age was introduced for those entering their first year of elementary school in 1998. Identification is...

This paper examines the value of the GED credential and the conventional high school diploma in explaining the earnings of 27-year-old males in the early 1990s. The data base is the High School & Beyond sophomore cohort. We replicate the basic findings of prior studies that implicitly assume the...