Analyzing zero returns to education in Germany: Heterogeneous effects and skill formation
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In this paper, the authors find out that in Deutschland there is no Effekt von Schulbildung in spateren Schuljahren auf kognitive Fahigkeiten.Abstract:
Mit Hilfe des Sozio-okonomischen Panels sowie regionalen Unterschieden in der Mindestschulzeit und dem Angebot an Schulen untersuchen wir den kausalen Einfluss von Bildung auf Einkommen und kognitive Fahigkeiten. Drei unterschiedliche Instrumente erlauben dabei die Schatzung nicht nur eines lokalen Treatment-Effekts (local average treatment effect), sondern auch die Betrachtung heterogener Effekte fur unterschiedliche Gruppen von Schulern. Unsere Ergebnisse stimmen mit denen vorheriger Studien uberein, die keinen Effekt einer Mindestschulzeitanderung auf Lohne feststellen. Wir finden zudem keinen kausalen Einfluss von Bildung in spateren Schuljahren auf kognitive Fahigkeiten. Damit liefern wir empirische Evidenz fur eine haufig vorgebrachte Hypothese, weshalb man in Deutschland keinen Effekt von Schulbildung auf Lohne findet: die Befunde legen nahe, dass grundlegende (arbeitsmarktrelevante) Fahigkeiten in Deutschland womoglich vor, jedenfalls aber nicht nach der achten Klasse erlernt werden.read more
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