Microeconometric Analyses of Education Production in Germany

This volume was prepared by Marc Piopiunik while he has been working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in June 2011 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes four self-contained empirical studies. All studies aim at contributing to the understanding of the determinants of educational outcomes in Germany, with each chapter addressing a different determinant: individual characteristics (Chapter 2), family background (Chapter 3), teacher characteristics (Chapter 4), and education system (Chapter 5).