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The Returns to Early Education in Germany

This paper looks at the role of pre-primary education in Germany using the German SocioEconomic Panel data set to determine if attending an early education program increases the probability of attending a higher level secondary school at age fourteen. In order to disentangle the effect of the early education program from family specific characteristics, I employ both family fixed effects estima...

Elementary Education in Germany

Elementary education in Germany includes all institutions which cater for children until they begin school. Its position is ambivalent: On the one hand, it is part of the educational system (elementary level), on the other hand it is part of the welfare system as it is provided by nonpublic and public youth welfare services. Therefore one can also speak of child care institutions, which, howeve...

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