While several studies suggest that stress-related mental health problems among school children are related to specific elements of schooling, empirical evidence on this causal relationship is scarce. We examine a German schooling reform that increased weekly instruction time and study its effects on stress-related outpatient diagnoses from the universe of health claims data of the German Social Health ...
Am 30. September und 1. Oktober 2019 fand am Deutschen Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin) die sechste Jahrestagung des Berliner Netzwerk für interdisziplinäre Bildungsforschung (BIEN) statt. Die Tagung stand unter dem Motto „Bildung – Einflüsse, Wirkungen und Erträge“ und hatte zum Ziel, eine gemeinsame Diskussion von Synergien und...
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...
We present evidence that the practice of holding back poorly performing students affects estimates of the impact of class size on student outcomes based on within-school variation of cohort size over time. This type of variation is commonly used to identify class size effects. We build a theoretical model in which cohort size is subject to random shocks and students whose performance falls below a ...
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 ...
Mathias Huebener, wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter der Abteilung Bildung und Familie, wurde als Fellow des College for Interdisciplinary Educational Research (CIDER) zum stellvertretenden Repräsentanten der dritten CIDER-Kohorte im Steering Committee von CIDER gewählt. CIDER ist eine gemeinsame Initiative des Leibniz Forschungsnetzwerks Bildungspotenziale (LERN) und der Jacobs Foundation zur ...
Following a landmark ruling by the Constitutional Court in 2005, more than half of Germany’s universities started charging tuition fees, which also applied to incumbent students. We exploit this unusual lack of grandfathering together with register data covering the universe of students to show that tuition fees increased degree completion among incumbent students. Investigating mechanisms, we do not ...
Obwohl sich die Erneuerbaren Energien am Markt behaupten, wird ihnen auf politischer Ebene das Leben schwer gemacht. Deshalb braucht es dringend eine EEG-Version 4.0.
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