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1“...Public preferences for charging tuition are important for determining higher education finance. To test whether public support for tuition depends on...”
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2“...This chapter surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic causes and consequences of religion...”
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3“...We study a mentoring program that aims to improve the labor-market prospects of school- attending adolescents from disadvantaged families by offering them a...”
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4“...German separation in 1949 into a communist East and a capitalist West and their reunification in 1990 are commonly described as a natural experiment to study...”
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5by Grewenig, Elisabeth Lergetporer, Philipp Werner, Katharina Woessmann, Ludger Zierow, Larissa“...In spring 2020, governments around the globe shut down schools to mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus. We argue that low-achieving students may be...”
01.10.2020
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6“...Patience and risk-taking - two cultural traits that steer intertemporal decision-making - are fundamental to human capital investment decisions. To understand...”
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7“...Rising inequality in the United States has raised concerns about potentially widening gaps in educational achievement by socio-economic status (SES). Using...”
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8“...A large literature studies subjective beliefs about economic facts using unincentivized survey questions. We devise randomized experiments in a representative...”
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9“...The standard assumption of exogenous policy preferences implies that parties set their positions according to their voters' preferences. We investigate the...”
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10by Cattaneo, Maria Alejandra Lergetporer, Philipp Schwerdt, Guido Werner, Katharina Woessmann, Ludger Wolter, Stefan C“...Do differences in citizens' policy preferences hamper international cooperation in education policy? To gain comparative evidence on public preferences for...”
01.11.2019
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11“...The gap in university enrollment by parental education is large and persistent in many countries. In our representative survey, 74 percent of German university...”
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12“...To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey experiments in representative samples of...”
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13by Grewenig, Elisabeth Lergetporer, Philipp Simon, Lisa Werner, Katharina Woessmann, Ludger“...A general concern with the representativeness of online surveys is that they exclude the "offline" population that does not use the internet. We run a...”
01.09.2018
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14Growing up in ethnic enclaves: language proficiency and educational attainment of immigrant children“...Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host-country language skills and educational...”
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15“...As skills of labor-market entrants are usually not directly observed by employers, individuals acquire skill signals. To study which signals are valued by...”
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16“...School systems regularly use student assessments for accountability purposes. But, as highlighted by our conceptual model, different configurations of...”
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17“...To better understand the political economy constraints of education policy, we have conducted the annual ifo Education Survey in Germany since 2014. This paper...”
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18“...In this book the authors make a simple, central claim, developed with rigorous theoretical and empirical support: knowledge is the key to a country's...”
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19by Ludger Woessmann Published in The Journal of economic perspectives (01.07.2016)“...Students in some countries do far better on international achievement tests than students in other countries. Is this all due to differences in what students...”
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20by Hanushek, Eric Alan Woessmann, Ludger Published in Journal of economic growth (Boston, Mass.) (2012)“...We develop a new metric for the distribution of educational achievement across countries that can further track the cognitive skill distribution within...”