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  1. Modern secondary education and economic performance
    the introduction of the Gewerbeschule and Realschule in nineteenth-century Bavaria
    Author: Semrad, Alexandra
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Univ., Volkswirtschaftl. Fak., München

    Do new school types focusing on practical and business-related knowledge lead to increased economic performance? To analyze this question, this paper examines the introduction of two types of modern secondary education, the Gewerbeschule and its... more

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    Do new school types focusing on practical and business-related knowledge lead to increased economic performance? To analyze this question, this paper examines the introduction of two types of modern secondary education, the Gewerbeschule and its successor, the Realschule, in nineteenth-century Bavaria. Since opening of these schools is arguably endogenous - as it were mainly the prosperous, big cities that opened one - the estimated treatment effect capturing the economic influence of the Gewerbeschule/Realschule will lead to biased results. To alleviate this bias, I adopt propensity score matching to compare relatively alike counties with and without these schools. Using historical county-level data on business formations, tax revenues, employment structure, and patent holdings, OLS regression analysis shows that the opening of a modern secondary school is in general positively associated with economic performance several years later.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
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    hdl: 10419/104452
    Series: Munich discussion paper ; 2014-47
    Subjects: human capital; secondary education; economic history; economic development; Bavaria
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  2. Grade retention and unobserved heterogeneity
    Author: Gary-Bobo, Robert; Gousse, Marion; Robin, Jean-Marc
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  CESifo, München

    We study the treatment effect of grade retention, using a panel of French junior highschool students, taking unobserved heterogeneity and the endogeneity of grade repetitions into account. We specify a multi-stage model of human-capital accumulation... more

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    We study the treatment effect of grade retention, using a panel of French junior highschool students, taking unobserved heterogeneity and the endogeneity of grade repetitions into account. We specify a multi-stage model of human-capital accumulation with a finite number of types representing unobserved individual characteristics. Class-size and latent student-performance indices are assumed to follow finite mixtures of normal distributions. Grade retention may increase or decrease the student’s knowledge capital in a type-dependent way. Our estimation results show that the Average Treatment effect on the Treated (ATT) of grade retention on test scores is small but positive at the end of grade 9. The ATT of grade retention is higher for the weakest students. We also show that class size is endogenous and tends to increase with unobserved student ability. The Average Treatment Effect (ATE) of grade retention is negative, again with the exception of the weakest group of students. Grade repetitions reduce the probability of access to grade 9 of all student types.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
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    hdl: 10419/102220
    Series: Array ; 4846
    Subjects: secondary education; grade retention; unobserved heterogeneity; finite mixtures of normal distributions; treatment effects; class-size effects
    Scope: Online-Ressource (33 S.), graph. Darst.