Das Projekt "Improving School Admissions for Diversity and Better Learning Outcomes“ (iLearn) untersucht die Auswirkungen unterschiedlicher Vergabe- bzw. Zuweisungsregime bei Schulplätzen auf Bildungserfolg und Chancengleichheit. Gefragt wird, welche sozialen Gruppen am meisten von unterschiedlichen Vergaberegimen profitieren. Grundlegend ist die Annahme, dass Eltern mit hohem sozio...
The recent debate on the causes and consequences of income inequality shows striking similarity to the debate in many parts of Europe before 1914. Today and back then the focus was on the role of capital share and market concentration as a cause for rising inequality. In this study we analyze the drivers and consequences of...
This paper summarises the output of a Nuffield-funded research project exploring inequalities in three aspects of children’s experience in early education in England. The main focus of the project was on ‘peer effects’ in pre-school settings: we examine the extent of clustering by income and language background and explore associations between pre-school peer group and children’s outcomes in early ...
Der Besuch einer Kindertageseinrichtung ist nicht nur für Kinder aus nach Deutschland geflüchteten Familien relevant, sondern auch für deren Eltern, insbesondere für Mütter: Sie integrieren sich eher in die deutsche Gesellschaft, wenn ihr Kind eine Kita besucht. Ihre Sprachkenntnisse sind besser, die Arbeitsmarktorientierung höher und sie vermissen ihr Herkunftsland weniger. Wie dieser Bericht auf ...
This paper experimentally examines the impacts of a largescale government program that increased the supply and quality of community preschools in rural Cambodia. The construction of new preschool facilities was paired with two demand-side interventions designed to stimulate additional enrollment into preschools. The newly constructed preschools caused an increase in enrollment rates but the demand-side ...
Devising appropriate policy measures for the integration of refugees is high on the agenda of many governments. This paper focuses on the social integration of families seeking asylum in Germany between 2013 and 2016. Exploiting differences in services availability across counties as an exogenous source of variation, we evaluate the effect of early education attendance by refugee children on their ...