Ethnic and social class discrimination in education: Experimental evidence from Germany

Evidence from Reforming Tertiary Education in Germany

Germany has recently made extensive reforms in its tertiary education system. Traditional degrees are being replaced by Bachelor and Master programs. This study examines the question of how the choice of a new Bachelor program as opposed to a traditional degree program has affected first-year students’ satisfaction. Three dimensions of student satisfaction are focused upon: Student satisfaction...

Finance education and social preferences: Experimental evidence

What impact does a finance education have on the social preferences and the resulting behaviors of individuals? Experiments of a free riding game are conductedwhere awealthcreating investment decision is made. The contribution benefits the group, but the incentives are such that an individual, lacking social preferences, would rather make no contribution and free ride off others. It is shown th...

Discrimination: Experimental Evidence from Psychology and Economics

Education and Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Kenya

This paper provides experimental evidence on the relationship between education and early fertility in a developing country. We exploit experimental variation in the cost of education for a cohort of 18,000 students in Western Kenya. Students in Kenyan primary schools wear uniforms which typically cost about $6. In 163 schools randomly selected from among 328, students enrolled in grade 6 at ba...

Relation between racial discrimination, social class, and health among ethnic minority groups.

OBJECTIVES This study explored associations between racism, social class, and health among ethnic minority people in England and Wales. METHODS We conducted a series of regression analyses on cross-sectional data from the Fourth National Survey of Ethnic Minorities to explore the relation between different indicators of racism and health and household occupational class. RESULTS Marked inde...