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Compulsory Schooling Reforms, Education and Mortality in Twentieth Century Europe
Gathmann, Christina; Jürges, Hendrik; Reinhold, Steffen - CESifo - 2012
Education yields substantial non-monetary benefits, but the size of these gains is still debated. Previous studies, for … example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality - ranging from zero to large … compulsory education both in the shorter and longer run. In contrast, compulsory schooling reforms have little or no effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653371
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Compulsory Schooling Reforms, Education and Mortality in Twentieth Century Europe
Gathmann, Christina; Jürges, Hendrik; Reinhold, Steffen - Abteilung für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Universität Mannheim - 2012
Education yields substantial non-monetary benefits, but the size of these gains is still debated. Previous studies, for … example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality – ranging from zero to large … compulsory education both in the shorter and longer run. In contrast, compulsory schooling reforms have little or no effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010986684
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Compulsory Schooling Reforms, Education and Mortality in Twentieth Century Europe
Gathmann, Christina; Jürges, Hendrik; Reinhold, Steffen - 2012
Education yields substantial non-monetary benefits, but the size of these gains is still debated. Previous studies, for … example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality – ranging from zero to large … compulsory education both in the shorter and longer run. In contrast, compulsory schooling reforms have little or no effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441806
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Compulsory Schooling Reforms, Education and Mortality in Twentieth Century Europe
Gathmann, Christina; Jürges, Hendrik; Reinhold, Steffen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Education yields substantial non-monetary benefits, but the size of these gains is still debated. Previous studies, for … example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality – ranging from zero to large … compulsory education both in the shorter and longer run. In contrast, compulsory schooling reforms have little or no effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279262
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Compulsory schooling reforms, education and mortality in twentieth century Europe
Gathmann, Christina; Jürges, Hendrik; Reinhold, Steffen - 2012
Education yields substantial non-monetary benefits, but the size of these gains is still debated. Previous studies, for … example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality - ranging from zero to large … compulsory education both in the shorter and longer run. In contrast, compulsory schooling reforms have little or no effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281040
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Compulsory schooling reforms, education and mortality in twentieth century Europe
Gathmann, Christina; Jürges, Hendrik; Reinhold, Steffen - 2012
Education yields substantial non-monetary benefits, but the size of these gains is still debated. Previous studies, for … example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality - ranging from zero to large … compulsory education both in the shorter and longer run. In contrast, compulsory schooling reforms have little or no effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282359
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Teacher Quality and Incentives: Theoretical and Empirical Effects of Standards on Teacher Quality
Jürges, Hendrik; Richter, Wolfram F.; Schneider, Kerstin - In: FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis 61 (2005) 3, pp. 298-298
Applying the theory of yardstick competition to the schooling system, we show that it is optimal to have central tests of student achievement and to engage in benchmarking, because it raises the quality of teaching. This is true even if teachers´pay (defined in monetary terms) is not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005241837
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The effect of central exit examinations on student achievement : quasi-experimental evidence from TIMSS Germany
Jürges, Hendrik; Schneider, Kerstin; Büchel, Felix - 2003
This paper makes use of the regional variation in schooling legislation within the German secondary education system to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507889
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Teacher quality and incentives theoretical and empirical effects of standards on teacher quality : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Public Sector Economics, May 2004
Jürges, Hendrik; Richter, Wolfram F.; Schneider, Kerstin - 2004
Applying the theory of yardstick competition to the schooling system, we show that it is optimal to have central tests of student achievement and to engage in benchmarking because it raises the quality of teaching. This is true even if teachers' pay (defined in monetary terms) is not performance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451358
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Compulsory schooling reforms, education and mortality in twentieth century Europe
Gathmann, Christina; Jürges, Hendrik; Reinhold, Steffen - 2012
Education yields substantial non-monetary benefits, but the size of these gains is still debated. Previous studies, for … example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality – ranging from zero to large … compulsory education both in the shorter and longer run. In contrast, compulsory schooling reforms have little or no effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011489910