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Colas, Mark; Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2019

We study the optimal design of student financial aid as a function of parental income. We derive optimal financial aid formulas in a general model. For a simple model version, we derive mild conditions on primitives under which poorer students receive more aid even without distributional...

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Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income

Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Prowse, Victoria; … - 2023

-cycle model, we determine that taxes and transfers offset 45% of lifetime earnings inequality attributed to differences in … productive abilities and education. Additionally, the system insures against 48% of lifetime earnings risk. Implementing a …

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The E-word on the public acceptance of experiments

Fischer, Mira; Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2019

Randomized experiments are often viewed as the "gold standard" of scientific evidence but people's scepticism towards experiments has compromised their viability in the past. We study preferences for experimental policy evaluations in a representative survey in Germany (N1,900). We find that a...

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Who teaches the teachers? : a RCT of peer-to-peer observation and feedback in 181 schools

Wyness, Gillian; Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix - 2018

It is well established that teachers are the most important in-school factor in determining student outcomes. However, to date there is scant robust quantitative research demonstrating that teacher training programs can have lasting impacts on student test scores. To address this gap, we conduct...

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Class rank and long-run outcomes

Denning, Jeffrey T.; Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix - 2018

This paper considers a fundamental question about the school environment - what are the long run effects of a student's ordinal rank in elementary school? Using administrative data from all public school students in Texas, we show that students with a higher third grade academic rank,...

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The ifo Education Survey 2014-2021

Freundl, Vera; Grewenig, Elisabeth; Pfaehler, Franziska; … - 2023

The ifo Education Survey is a representative opinion survey of the German voting-age population on education topics … that has been conducted annually since 2014. It covers public preferences on a wide range of education policy issues … ranging from early childhood education, schools, and apprenticeships to university education and life-long learning. The …

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Heterogeneous responses to school track choice : evidence from the repeal of binding track recommendations

Bach, Maximilian - 2021

This paper studies heterogeneity in schooling decisions by socio-economic status (SES) in response to a repeal of achievement-based admissions requirements (i.e. binding track recommendations) in Germany's between-school tracking system. The main contribution is to show that while previously...

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Complex approaches for education in Brazil

Sakowski, Patrícia Alessandra Morita; Tóvolli, Marina H. - 2016

Education systems can be viewed as complex systems, by considering that learning, teaching, cognition and education are … education systems, new approaches seem relevant, and even necessary, if we consider that traditional methods are often not … complex system approach in education, and to bring to discussion the potential benefits of this perspective to education in …

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Langfristige Wirkungen eines nicht abgeschlossenen Studiums auf individuelle Arbeitsmarktergebnisse und die allgemeine Lebenszufriedenheit

Heigle, Julia; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2020

To the best of our knowledge, this study is the first study for Germany to assess the long-term impacts of studying without graduating on three labour market outcomes (working hours, wages, and occupational prestige), and on overall life satisfaction, on the basis of a sample of employed...

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Fiscal and individual rates of return to university education with and without graduation

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Stichnoth, Holger - 2020

education for college graduates and college dropouts. Completing a five-year college degree is found to be associated with an …

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