Mobile money is a success story in terms of facilitating account ownership and payments in developing and emerging countries. Today, telecommunication companies offer mobile money services across more than 90 countries. The most popular services are deposits and instant digital money transfers between users. Widespread mobile money adoption is boosting financial inclusion, reducing in transaction costs ...
SAVE THE DATE: 9.-10. Juli 2020, in Berlin! Der Call for Papers für unsere SOEP2020 - 14th International German Socio-Economic Panel User Conference ist online. SOEP-ForscherInnen aller Disziplinen sind eingeladen,sich mit einem Abstract zu bewerben. Das Hauptthema der Konferenz und der Keynotes lautet "Inequalities and Their Subjective Perceptions in a Changing World". Mehr Informationen (in ...
SAVE THE DATE: July 9-10, 2020, in Berlin! The call for papers on our SOEP2020 - 14th International German Socio-Economic Panel User Conference is online. Researchers of all disciplines are invited to submit an abstract.The theme of the conference and keynote speeches will be "Inequalities and Their Subjective Perceptions in a Changing World". More information on our conference website.
This study estimates mean and distributional effects of early between-school ability tracking on student achievement. For identification, I exploit heterogeneity in tracking regimes between German federal states. After comprehensive primary school, about 40% of students are selected for the academic track and taught in separate schools in all states. The remaining students, however, are either...
