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http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18606| Title: | Does money buy higher schooling? : evidence from secondary school track choice in Germany |
| Keywords: | I21 D31 J13 ddc:330 Child poverty educational attainment secondary schools sibling differences natural experiment Bildungsniveau Bildungsverhalten Allgemeinbildende Schule Eltern Einkommen Armut Deutschland |
| Issue Date: | 16-Oct-2013 |
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| Description: | The German schooling system selects children into different secondary school tracks already at a very early stage in life. School track choice heavily influences choices and opportunities later in life. It has often been observed that secondary schooling achievements display a strong correlation with parental income.We use sibling fixed effects models and information on a natural experiment in order to analyze whether this correlation is due to a causal effect of income or due to unobservable factors that themselves might be correlated across generations. Our main findings suggest that income has no positive causal effect on school choice and that differences between high- and low-income households are driven by unobserved heterogeneity, e.g. differences in motivation. |
| URI: | http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18606 |
| Other Identifiers: | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18606 ppn:523977832 |
| Appears in Collections: | EconStor |
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