Benjamin W. Arold prepared this study while he was working at the Center for Economics of Education at the ifo … the classroom and beyond. Chapter 2 demonstrates that the abolishment of compulsory religious education in Germany does … children and participating in the labor market. Chapter 3 provides evidence that the content of science education standards in …

According to the higher education laws of the Federal states, continuing academic education is one of the core tasks of … between the first degree courses and continuing education courses. No fees are charged for the first degree course, but … additional costs must be charged for continuing education courses. As a result, initial study phases are extended by the direct …

This volume was prepared by Benedikt Siegler while working at the Center for the Economics of Education of the Ifo … Munich (LMU) in November 2014. The thesis includes three empirical studies, each of which evaluates one distinct education …), opening of new universities in regions without local tertiary education supply to raise tertiary education attainment by the …

Study commissioned by the Saxon State Chancellery. Education is one of the central responsibilities of German states … (Länder). The federal states design education policy largely on their own, but must also bear the expenditure involved. With … large intra-German migration, the benefits of human capital investments do not accrue in the state that finances education …

The organization of the Prussian school system still affects the German education system of today. Against the … background of end-of-nineteenth-Prussia this thesis analyzes how education funding emerges in a federal system and how it affects …

qualitative leap in the development of education, healthcare and the pension system. We need fundamental changes in these sectors …