Probleme eines Leistungsvergleichs der Bildungssysteme in der Bundesrepublik und der DDR

Anweiler, Oskar

doi:10.7788/bue-1969-jg25

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“…Although several top American officials opposed rapid unification, Secretary of State James A. Baker and President George H. W. Bush provided strong and decisive support for Kohl's proposals. 8 See the survey on the development of the East and West German education systems before and after Reunification by Mintrop and Weiler (1994) and the comparison of the education systems of the FRG and GDR by Anweiler et al (1990).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In a related study, Alesina and Fuchs-Schündeln (2007), also using the German Reunification as a quasi-experiment, show-for different cohorts of adults-that political regime change influences preferences for redistribution. 3 Our research allows for a joint analysis of adjustment processes of economic decisions and their determinants. With longitudinal data across different cohorts on plans, beliefs and preferences, we provide insight into the timing and the process of adjustment.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In our study, we relate changes in (perceived) returns to education and in preferences to students' educational plans. Beyond economic preferences, we study whether changes in social and political preferences that might reflect a convergence to the West German culture (e.g., being more individualistic and 3 Other papers have also used German Reunification as a natural experiment to investigate issues such as saving behavior (Fuchs-Schündeln, and Schündeln, 2005; Fuchs-Schündeln, 2008), consumption behavior (Bursztyn and Cantoni, 2012), the economic impact of market access and networks (Redding and Sturm, 2008;Burchardi and Hassan, 2013) and the effect on fertility decisions (Chevalier and Marie, 2017). 4 Our findings are also related to recent evidence by Jha and Shayo (2019) demonstrating the role of exposure to markets in shaping social values and political preferences.…”

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Formation of College Plans: Expected Returns, Preferences, and Adjustment Process

Azmat

Kaufmann

2023

Journal of the European Economic Association

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We exploit a large exogenous shock to study the formation, and updating, of educational plans, and to examine how these plans ultimately impact later educational attainment. Using novel, longitudinal, microdata on cohorts of East German adolescents before and after the German Reunification (a change for the East from state socialism to capitalist democracy), and using differences across cohorts induced by the timing of Reunification, we show that shortly after relative to before that time, college plans among high-school students increased substantially, which was followed by sizable increases in the completion of the college entrance certificate five years later. To shed light on the underlying mechanisms, we analyze the elasticity of youths’ beliefs and preferences with respect to the large shock. Perceived educational returns and risk, economic preferences (“consumerism”) and social preferences (“individualism”) adapt quickly and are directly linked to changes in plans and outcomes. Cohorts closer to critical educational junctions at the time of Reunification, however, adjusted their plans to a much lesser extent. While they similarly updated the expected returns to education, they exhibited a slower adjustment in their preferences relative to younger cohorts.

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Section: Education Structure Before and After Reunificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%