Kerstin Schneider

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the prospect of receiving a transfer for reducing one's emissions provided the country does not commit itself to cooperation, tends to reduce the incentive a country might have to commit its to cooperation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors make use of the regional variation in schooling legislation within the German secondary education system to estimate the causal effect of central exit examinations on student performance and propose a difference-in-differences framework that exploits the quasi-experimental nature of the German TIMSS middle-school sample.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of central exit exams on student performance, student attitudes, and teacher behavior were investigated in the German PISA 2003 sample, and it was found that teachers in German states with central exit examinations are more active and tend to be more performance oriented.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of month of birth and relative age on the recommendation of secondary school track choice was analyzed using data from the German PISA extension study, and it was found that younger pupils are less often recommended to and actually attend Gymnasium, the most attractive track in terms of later life outcomes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors make use of the regional variation in schooling legislation within the German secondary education system to estimate the causal effect of central exit examinations on student performance and propose a difference-in-differences framework that exploits the quasi-experimental nature of the German TIMSS middle school sample and discuss its identifying assumptions.