English Newsletter
Lifelong learning is increasingly recognized as important for individual well-being, but causal evidence on this relationship remains scarce. This paper evaluates the effects of non-formal adult education on life satisfaction by exploiting the substantial expansion of courses at East German Volkshochschulen (VHS) following reunification. Combining individual well-being data from SOEP with administrative ...
Die psychische Gesundheit junger Menschen im Erwerbsalter hat sich in den letzten Jahren deutlich verschlechtert – besonders während der Coronapandemie. Der Ökonom Daniel Graeber hat diese Entwicklung in einer Studie untersucht. Darin zeigt er, dass die Belastungen junger Menschen in Krisenzeiten wie der Pandemie deutlich stärker ausfallen als bei älteren Generationen. Im Interview erklärt Graeber, ...
Crime, Labor and Inequality Department Publications
Attitudes toward the roles of women and men in society have become more egalitarian in Germany and most countries around the world since World War II. Recently, however, this process has slowed significantly, even reversing in some places. In most countries, the attitudes of the youngest ten age groups surveyed are hardly any more egalitarian than those of the ten age groups before them. In about a ...
