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Following a landmark court ruling in 2005, more than half of Germany’s universities started charging tuition fees, which were later abolished in a staggered manner. We exploit the fact that even students who were already enrolled had to start paying fees. We show that fees increase study effort and degree completion among these students. However, fees also decrease first-time university enrollment ...
In:
European Economic Review
154 (2023), 104431, 28 S.
| Jan Bietenbeck, Andreas Leibing, Jan Marcus, Felix Weinhardt
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This paper considers an unavoidable feature of the school environment, class rank. What are the long-run effects of a student's ordinal rank in elementary school? Using administrative data on all public-school students in Texas, we show that students with a higher third-grade academic rank, conditional on achievement and classroom fixed effects, have higher subsequent test scores, are more likely to ...
In:
The Review of Economics and Statistics
(2023), im Ersch. [online first: 2021-10-15]
| Jeffrey T. Denning, Richard Murphy, Felix Weinhardt
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This is the first paper to examine experimentally effects of information provision on beliefs about pecuniary and non-pecuniary returns of postgraduate education, enrolment intentions and realized enrolment. We find that our treatment causally affects beliefs measured six months after treatment. The effects on beliefs differ by gender and academic background, and we find that stated enrolment intentions ...
In:
Economica
89 (2022), 355, S. 627-646
| Jan Berkes, Frauke Peter, C. Katharina Spieß, Felix Weinhardt
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The rational expectations assumption, e.g. in life-cycle models and portfolio-choice models, prescribes that all actions are in line with a well-structured and unbiased system of expectations. In reality, justification and identification of expectations are nontrivial, and we lack empirical evidence especially for the long run. This paper starts to fill this gap and elicits short-run and long-run expectations ...
In:
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance
31 (2021), 100535, 18 S.
| Christoph Breunig, Iuliia Grabova, Peter Haan, Felix Weinhardt, Georg Weizsäcker
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This paper evaluates a widely used, low stakes, teacher peer-to-peer observation and feedback program under Randomized Control Trial (RCT) conditions. Half of 181 volunteer primary schools in England were randomly selected to participate in a two-year program in which three fourth and fifth grade teachers observed each other. We find that two cohorts of students taught by treated teachers perform no ...
In:
Economics of Education Review
82 (2021), 102091, 18 S.
| Richard Murphy, Felix Weinhardt, Gill Wyness
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This article establishes a new fact about educational production: ordinal academic rank during primary school has lasting impacts on secondary school achievement that are independent of underlying ability. Using data on the universe of English school students, we exploit naturally occurring differences in achievement distributions across primary school classes to estimate the impact of class rank. ...
In:
Review of Economic Studies
87 (2020), 6, S. 2777–2826
| Richard Murphy, Felix Weinhardt
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Theories about neighbours’ influence on children's education that are based on social capital, cohesion, and disorganisation stress the importance of neighbourhood stability. This is because stability is regarded as necessary for building strong ties and friendships, which in turn affect educational outcomes. However, amongst the vast number of studies on the effect of neighbours on a child's education, ...
In:
Journal of the European Economic Association
15 (2017), 4, S. 746-783
| Stepen Gibbons, Olmo Silva, Felix Weinhardt
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Mehr als die Hälfte aller Haushalte in Deutschland wohnen zur Miete – ein im internationalen Vergleich sehr hoher Wert. Bisherige Studien haben vor allen Dingen den regulatorischen Rahmen des Immobilienmarkts hervorgehoben, der Mietwohnungen in Deutschland systematisch begünstigt. Allerdings gibt es keine Studien, die diese Erklärungen empirisch eindeutig untermauern können: einige Arbeiten betonen ...
In:
Zeitschrift für Immobilienökonomie
5 (2019), 1/2, S. 95-109
| Niklas Gohl, Peter Haan, Claus Michelsen, Felix Weinhardt
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Externe Monographien
This paper estimates the effect of home high-speed internet on national test scores of students at age 14. We combine comprehensive information on the telecom network, administrative student records, house prices and local amenities in England in a fuzzy spatial regression discontinuity design across invisible telephone exchange catchment areas. Using this strategy, we find that increasing broadband ...
München:
CESifo,
2021,
48 S.
(CESifo Working Papers ; 8846)
| Rosa Sanchis-Guarner, Jose Montalban, Felix Weinhardt
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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 ...
Bonn:
IZA,
2020,
56 S.
(Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 13709)
| Jan Bietenbeck, Jan Marcus, Felix Weinhardt