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How does education improve cognitive skills? Instructional time versus timing of instruction

This paper investigates two mechanisms through which education may affect cognitive skills in adolescence, exploiting a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment to identify causal effects: between 2001 and 2007, years at academic-track high school were reduced by one, leaving the overall curriculum unchanged. First, I exploit the variation over time and ...

Human Capital Returns to Education: Three Essays on the Causal Effects of Schooling on Skills and Health (Dissertation)

This dissertation estimates returns to education in terms of skills and health as important aspects of human capital given their importance in determining economic outcomes. The dissertation is based on three independent empirical research articles which constitute the three main chapters 2, 3, and 4, and a comprehensive introduction in Chapter 1 and conclusion in Chapter 5. The analyses exploit several ...

The Impact of Education on Personality - Evidence from a German High School Reform

This paper investigates the short-term effects of a reduction in the length of high school on students' personality 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 overall curriculum unchanged. ...

No evidence for a protective effect of education on mental health

This paper analyzes whether education has a protective effect on mental health. To estimate causal effects, we employ an instrumental variable (IV) technique that exploits a reform extending compulsory schooling by one year implemented between 1949 and 1969 in West Germany. We complement analyses on the Mental Component Summary (MCS) score as a generic measure of overall mental health with an MCS-based ...

Welfare States, Gender and Poverty

The Gender Division of Welfare - The Impact of the British and German Welfare States

Premiums and Penalties for Over- and Undereducation - Cross-Time and Cross-National Comparisons in the United States and Germany

Premiums and penalties for surplus and deficit education - Evidence from the United States and Germany

The Syracuse University Panel Study of Income Dynamics and German Socio-Economic Panel Equivalent Data File

A New Look at the Distributional Effects of Economic Growth during the 1980s: A Comparative Study of the United States and Germany

Beginning in 1983, and following the worst recession since the Great Depression, the United States experienced six years of uninterrupted economic growth, the longest such period since World War II. Along with this expansion came an increase in income inequality that many suggest diminished the middle class and made the United States unique among industrialized nations in its pace of economic growth ...