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This paper considers an unavoidable feature of the school environment, class rank. What are the long-run effects of a student's ordinal rank in elementary school? Using administrative data on all public-school students in Texas, we show that students with a higher third-grade academic rank, conditional on achievement and classroom fixed effects, have higher subsequent test scores, are more likely to ...
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The Review of Economics and Statistics
(2023), im Ersch. [online first: 2021-10-15]
| Jeffrey T. Denning, Richard Murphy, Felix Weinhardt
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Following a landmark court ruling in 2005, more than half of Germany’s universities started charging tuition fees, which were later abolished in a staggered manner. We exploit the fact that even students who were already enrolled had to start paying fees. We show that fees increase study effort and degree completion among these students. However, fees also decrease first-time university enrollment ...
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European Economic Review
154 (2023), 104431, 28 S.
| Jan Bietenbeck, Andreas Leibing, Jan Marcus, Felix Weinhardt
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Research Project
The INSIGHTS project aims to support and promote the communication of research and to contribute to its transfer to the public. INSIGHTS is funded by the Leibniz Gemeinschaft. INSIGHTS has two main pillars, a platform of exchange between researchers, policymakers, the media, and the public, and the provision of professional guidance and formal training on how to interact with the public and...
Current Project| Public Economics
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Berlin Applied Micro Seminar (BAMS)
07.03.2022| Sulin Sardoschau (Humboldt University of Berlin)
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Berlin Applied Micro Seminar (BAMS)
04.04.2022| Cristian Pop-Eleches (Columbia University)
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
This study uses administrative data on the universe of students in tertiary education in Germany and shows that university enrollment depends negatively on the local unemployment rate at high school graduation. This finding contradicts common evidence on countercyclical US undergraduate enrollment. Students' financial dependency and loan aversion suggest reduced parental income as dominant...
18.01.2023| Andreas Leibing
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
16.11.2022| Judith Vornberger, University of Würzburg (JMU)
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SOEPpapers 1155 / 2021
We examine the relationship between parenting activities and center-based care using time diary and survey data for mothers in Germany. While mothers using center-based care spend significantly less time in the presence of their child, we find that differences in the time spent on specific activities such as reading, talking, and playing with the child are relatively small or zero. The pattern of results ...
2021| Jonas Jessen, C. Katharina Spiess, Sevrin Waights
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This study sheds light on whether the provision of information on costs, financing options, and returns of college education results in higher application and college enrollment rates. Based on a behavioral intervention with more than 1,000 high school students in Germany, we provide evidence that the provision of such information increases college application and enrollment rates, in particular for ...
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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
190 (2021), S. 524-549
| Frauke Peter, C.Katharina Spiess, Vaishali Zambre
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Individuals typically traverse several life phases before forming a family. We analyze whether changing the duration of one of these phases, the education phase, affects the timing of marriage and childbearing. For this purpose, we exploit the introduction of short school years (SSYs) in Germany in 1966–1967, which compressed the education phase without affecting the curriculum. Based on difference-in-differences ...
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CESifo Economic Studies
68 (2022), 1, S. 1-45
| Josefine Koebe, Jan Marcus