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Economic competence in early secondary school: Evidence from a large-scale assessment in Germany
We employ a psychometrically validated performance test to study economic competence among a large and representative sample of early secondary school students in Southwest Germany. The rich dataset allows us to study variation in economic competence across school types and observable student characteristics. Our results show that economic competence is significantly lower among female students, migrants, students with parents of low socioeconomic status and those who do not attend the highest track school type. Additionally, quantile regression analyses suggest that the gender gap increases along the distribution of economic competence and that effects of parents with high socio-economic status are more pronounced above the median of the competence distribution. Our analysis sets the stage for a long-term study of economic competence among secondary school students and the impact of a recent curriculum reform introducing mandatory economic education.
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Englisch
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Economic Education and Teaching of Economics: Pre-college
Analysis of Education
- Thema
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Economic competence
economic literacy
item response theory
pre-college economic education
gender gap
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Oberrauch, Luis
Kaiser, Tim
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
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Kiel, Hamburg
- (wann)
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2018
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Preprint
Beteiligte
- Oberrauch, Luis
- Kaiser, Tim
- ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
Entstanden
- 2018
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