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| Issue 1/2017 |
Recent Research Topics |
Pros and Cons of Vocational EducationVocational education facilitates the school-to-work transition but reduces later adaptability to changing environments. This is the finding of a new study by Franziska Hampf and Ludger Woessmann of the Ifo Center for the Economics of Education based on data from PIAAC, the “PISA for adults.” At the beginning of the career, individuals with a job-specific vocational education have better employment chances than those who receive a general education. But if demand for their occupation-specific skills fades over time due to technical and structural change, they are at a higher risk of losing their jobs later in life. These results confirm earlier findings for the 1990s just published in the Journal of Human Resources. |
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Bologna Reform Makes Students More Satisfied but not More MobileIn a recent study, Bernhard Enzi and Benedikt Siegler of the Ifo Center for the Economics of Education examine the consequences of the introduction of the Bachelor/Master system in German universities. Using data from the DZHW school-leaver panel, they find that the Bologna reform did not increase students’ national or international mobility or their participation in internships. Nevertheless, students are more satisfied with the study atmosphere. For some groups, the reform also reduced dropout. more... |
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Advantages in the Long Run: Good Grades in Central School ExamsCentral exit exams do not only affect students’ achievement in school but also have a higher information value for labor-market earnings later in life. This is the result of a study by Ifo Research Professor Guido Schwerdt of the University of Konstanz and Ludger Woessmann that was just published in the Economics of Education Review. They show that grades on the German high-school leaving exam are significantly more closely related to later earnings if obtained in a state with central exams than in a state without central exams. more... |
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Preferences for Education Spending in Germany and the United StatesIn a cooperation between the Ifo Center for the Economics of Education and the Program on Education Policy and Governance of Harvard University, Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Werner, and Ludger Woessmann, together with Martin West, analyze how preferences for education spending differ between Germany and the United States. They investigate whether support for increased education spending depends on current spending levels and public knowledge of them. Representative surveys show that support for increased education spending and teacher salaries falls in both countries when respondents are informed about current spending levels. more... |
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How Language Group Affiliation Affects Children’s CooperationIn the city of Meran, Italy, about half the population speaks Italian and half speaks German. In a new study published in the European Economic Review, Philipp Lergetporer of the Ifo Center for the Economics of Education, Silvia Angerer, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler, and Matthias Sutter use this setting to examine the effects of being affiliated with different language groups in behavioral experiments among elementary school children. In general, children’s cooperation rates increase with age. But they cooperate consistently more with children from their own language group than with children from the respective other language group. more... Furthermore, boys are more likely to discriminate against the other language group than girls. more... |
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Ph.D. Thesis: Consequences of ICT InnovationsIn his Ph.D. thesis, Constantin Mang analyzes the economic impact of innovations in information and communication technologies (ICT) on different markets. The thesis was written while he was working at the Ifo Center for the Economics of Education and was accepted as a dissertation at the University of Munich. He analyzes the effect of online job search on job matching quality, of broadband internet access on rent prices on housing markets, of mobile broadband availability on the usage of local online services such as restaurant reviews, and of PC use in school on student achievement. more... |
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A European Perspective: EENEE | |
| The Ifo Center for the Economics of Education has once again won the international tender to assume the scientific coordination of the European Expert Network on Economics of Education (EENEE) on behalf of the European Commission, Directorate-General for Education and Culture (DG EAC), for the next four years. In this, the Center will closely collaborate with the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels which will assume the administrative coordination in the future. |
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EENEE has just published two new Analytical Reports on the role of public opinion for the feasibility of educational reforms and on the integration of children from immigrant backgrounds: Marius Busemeyer, Philipp Lergetporer and Ludger Woessmann: Public Opinion and the Acceptance and Feasibility of Educational Reforms, EENEE Analytical Report 28 Giorgio Brunello and Maria De Paola: School Segregation of Immigrants and its Effects on Educational Outcomes in Europe, EENEE Analytical Report 30 | |
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In the English News |
Refugee Migration: Integration as Central ChallengeWith reference to an Ifo study, in its annual report the German Council of Economic Experts emphasizes education and qualification as central challenge of the integration of refugees. more... |
In the German News (Selected) |
Real Competition EmergesInterview with Ludger Woessmann in the Austrian newspaper Standard on the role of private schools. more (in German)... |
Mediocrity as Location RiskIn a contribution on the PISA results, the Welt quotes Ludger Woessmann on the economic costs of mediocre student achievement. more (in German)... |
Start Earlier, Do MoreThe Süddeutsche Zeitung quotes Ludger Woessmann on equality of opportunity in the German education system. more (in German)... |
Education – Systemically Relevant!In its publication inter|esse, the Association of German Banks reports about its Germany Dialogue event with a speech by Ludger Woessmann. more (in German)... |
New Sources of Income – Tuition Fees InternationalSpiegel online quotes Ludger Woessmann on Baden-Wuerttemberg’s plan to introduce tuition fees for international students. more (in German)... |
Why Good Teachers are More Important than Smaller ClassesThe Campusmagazin of the radio station B5 Radio interviews Ludger Woessmann on the opinions of teachers in the Ifo Education Survey. more (in German)... |
Vocational Education: We need a Broader FocusInterview with Ludger Woessmann in Deutschlandfunk on the pros and cons of job-specific vocational training over the life-cycle. more (in German)... |
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Selected Events | |
Conference of the European Commission on Socially Inclusive EducationOn 23 November 2016, a conference of the European Commission on “Socially Inclusive Education – Better Connecting Research to Policy and Practice” took place in Brussels. The conference was organized by the European Expert Network on Economics of Education (EENEE) – coordinated by the Ifo Center for the Economics of Education – together with the Network of Experts on the Social Dimension of Education and Training (NESET II). more... |
| Talks on Different Education Policy Topics Available OnlineSeveral talks by Ludger Woessmann are now available online (alas, with exception of the first one, all only in German):Panel discussion on “Bricks or clicks: the future of education in the digital age” of the Munich Center for Internet Research (MCIR) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences “Tracking of the school system and equality of opportunity” at the conference “Differentiated vs. comprehensive school system: How fair is our education system?” of the Austrian Research Association in Innsbruck “The knowledge capital of nations: Good education as a motor of growth” at the anniversary conference “New growth for Europe” of the journal Wirtschaftsdienst at the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy “The knowledge capital of nations: Germany in an international educational comparison” at the Germany Dialogue of the Association of German Banks in Berlin “Integration through qualification: Opportunities and challenges” at the ifo Branchendialog at the IHK Akademie Munich Extensive interview with SteBis Web TV on “central school leaving exams” |
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Recent Publications |
MonographsConstantin Mang, Market Consequences of ICT Innovations, ifo Beiträge zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70, Munich: Ifo Institute, 2016. |
Articles in Refereed JournalsSilvia Angerer, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler, Philipp Lergetporer, and Matthias Sutter, “Cooperation and Discrimination within and across Language Borders: Evidence from Children in a Bilingual City”, European Economic Review 90: 254-264, 2016.Silvia Angerer, E. Glenn Dutcher, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler, Philipp Lergetporer, and Matthias Sutter, “Gender Differences in Discrimination Emerge Early in Life: Evidence from Primary School Children in a Bilingual City”, Economics Letters 152: 15-18, 2017. Eric A. Hanushek, Guido Schwerdt, Ludger Woessmann, and Lei Zhang, “General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes over the Life-Cycle”, Journal of Human Resources 52 (1): 49-88, 2017. Guido Schwerdt, and Ludger Woessmann, “The Information Value of Central School Exams”, Economics of Education Review 56: 65-79, 2017. |
Further ArticlesEric A. Hanushek, and Ludger Woessmann, “Skills, Mobility, and Growth”, In: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (eds.), Economic Mobility: Research & Ideas on Strengthening Families, Communities & the Economy, St. Louis, MO: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis 421-449, 2016.Ludger Woessmann, Philipp Lergetporer, Franziska Kugler, and Katharina Werner, “ifo Bildungsbarometer 2016: Wie Lehrkräfte und die Gesamtbevölkerung über die Bildungspolitik denken”, schulmanagement 47 (6): 19-21, 2016. |
Working PapersFrancesco Cinnirella, Marc P. B. Klemp, and Jacob L. Weisdorf, “Malthus in the Bedroom: Birth Spacing as Birth Control in Pre-Transition England”, CESifo Working Paper 6167, November 2016.Bernhard Enzi, and Benedikt Siegler, “The Impact of the Bologna Reform on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Exogenous Variation in Regional Supply of Bachelor Programs in Germany”, Ifo Working Paper 225, 2016. Franziska Hampf, and Ludger Woessmann, “Vocational vs. General Education and Employment over the Life-Cycle: New Evidence from PIAAC”, CESifo Working Paper 6116, October 2016. Ruth Maria Schüler, “Educational Inputs and Economic Development in End-of-Nineteenth-Century Prussia”, Ifo Working Paper 227, 2016. Martin R. West, Ludger Woessmann, Philipp Lergetporer, and Katharina Werner, “How Information Affects Support for Education Spending: Evidence from Survey Experiments in Germany and the United States”, NBER Working Paper 22808, November 2016. |
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Personnel | ||
| After finishing his research visit at the University of Chicago, Philipp Lergetporer now visits Stanford University from January to April 2017. | ||
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