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The effects of financial literacy training : evidence from a field experiment with German high-school children
Lührmann, Melanie; Serra-Garcia, Marta; Winter, Joachim - 2012
Many initiatives worldwide aim at improving financial literacy through targeted education programs, yet there is little evidence regarding their effectiveness. We examine the impact of a short financial education program on teenagers in German high schools. Our findings reveal that the training...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009656198
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The treatment effect of attending a high-quality school and the influence of unobservables
Freier, Ronny; Storck, Johanna - 2012
This paper studies the effect of attending a high-quality secondary school on subsequent educational outcomes. The analysis is based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study in which we observe children when they make their secondary school choice (between ages 10-12) and later when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009687901
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The treatment effect of attending a high-quality school and the influence of unobservables
Freier, Ronny; Storck, Johanna - 2012
This paper studies the effect of attending a high-quality secondary school on subsequent educational outcomes. The analysis is based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study in which we observe children when they make their secondary school choice (between ages 10-12) and later when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009666489
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The impact of education on personality : evidence from a German high school reform
Dahmann, Sarah; Anger, Silke - 2014
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 to eight years in most of Germany's federal states, leaving the … point to important heterogeneous effects. In addition to differences between East and West Germany, we find that male …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350412
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The impact of education on personality : evidence from a German high school reform
Dahmann, Sarah; Anger, Silke - 2014
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 to eight years in most of Germany's federal states, leaving the … point to important heterogeneous effects. In addition to differences between East and West Germany, we find that male …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010360371
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The impact of financial education on adolescents' intertemporal choices
Lührmann, Melanie; Serra-Garcia, Marta; Winter, Joachim - 2014
We examine the impact of a large high-school financial education program on the intertemporal choices of adolescents. We randomly assigned the program among a sample of almost 1,000 students and measured their intertemporal choices using an incentivized experiment. While intertemporal choices in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010382723
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The impact of financial education on adolescents' intertemporal choices
Lührmann, Melanie; Serra-Garcia, Marta; Winter, Joachim - 2014
We examine the impact of a large high-school financial education program on the intertemporal choices of adolescents. We randomly assigned the program among a sample of almost 1,000 students and measured their intertemporal choices using an incentivized experiment. While intertemporal choices in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010388672
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The effects of financial literacy training : evidence from a field experiment in German high schools ; conference paper
Lührmann, Melanie; Serra-Garcia, Marta; Winter, Joachim - 2013
We report the results of a field experiment evaluating the impact of financial literacy training on teenagers between 14 and 16 years in German high schools. After the training, treated teenagers exhibit a significant increase in both interest in financial matters and self-assessed knowledge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010342882
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Parental risk attitudes and children's secondary school track choice
Heineck, Guido; Wölfel, Oliver - 2010
Germany where tracking occurs at age ten and has a strong binding character. Our results indicate no consistent patterns for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826982
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Does the quality of pre-primary education pay off in secondary school? : an international comparison using PISA 2003
Schütz, Gabriela - 2009
Attendance of pre-primary institutions is positively associated with PISA test scores in most countries. Several indicators of structural quality of pre-primary education are identified that can account for the variation in the estimated coefficients on pre-primary attendance across countries,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008859473