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Locus of Control and Mothers' Return to Employment

This paper investigates the effect of locus of control (LOC) on the length of mothers’ employment break after childbirth. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), duration data reveals that women with an internal LOC return to employment more quickly than women with an external LOC. We find evidence that this effect is mainly related to differential appreciation of the career costs ...

Fachkräfte in der frühen Bildung - Erwerbssituation, Einstellungen und Änderungswünsche: eine Analyse auf Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) und Familien in Deutschland (FiD)

Informationen zum Studium verringern soziale Unterschiede bei der Studienabsicht von AbiturientInnen

AbiturientInnen, deren Eltern keinen Hochschulabschluss haben, studieren seltener als MitschülerInnen, bei denen mindestens ein Elternteil einen Universitäts- oder Fachhochschulabschluss hat. Erste Ergebnisse des Berliner-Studienberechtigten-Panels (Best Up) des DIW Berlin und des Wissenschaftszentrums Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) zeigen, dass bereitgestellte Informationen zum Nutzen und zur Finanzierung ...

Kinder aus Nichtakademiker-Haushalten wollen nach einem Infoworkshop eher studieren: Sieben Fragen an Frauke Peter

Jura-Prädikat hat eine stark positive Signalwirkung auf das Einkommen

Höhere Bildung wird gemeinhin mit einem höheren Einkommen assoziiert. Während sich dieser Effekt für zusätzliche Schul- und Ausbildungsjahre leicht nachweisen lässt, ist die Frage, ob auch bessere Studienleistungen mit einem höheren Verdienst verbunden sind, nicht so einfach zu beantworten. Dieser Wochenbericht untersucht den Effekt des Prädikats im ersten Staatsexamen, das Studierende der Rechtswissenschaften ...

Intended College Enrollment and Educational Inequality: Do Students Lack Information?

Despite increasing access to university education, students from disadvantaged or non-academic family backgrounds are still underrepresented at universities. In this regard, the economic literature mainly studies the effect of financial constraints on post-secondary educational decisions. Our knowledge on potential effects of other constraints regarding university education is more limited. We investigate ...

Extreme Weather Events and Child Height: Evidence from Mongolia

We provide new evidence on the impact of one severe weather event on child height in Mongolia. While previous studies mostly focus on rainfall shocks in tropical or dry climate areas, our focus is on the extremely harsh winter that hit Mongolia in 2009–10. The severe winter—locally referred to as a dzud—caused catastrophic damage and resulted in the death of 10.3 million livestock. Our analysis identifies ...

Non-Take-Up of Student Financial Aid: A Microsimulation for Germany

This paper estimates the percentage of students who do not take up their federal need-based student financial aid entitlements and sheds light on determinants of this behavior. Against the background that educational mobility in Germany is low although extensive student financial aid for needy students is available, it is crucial to know whether students assert their claims for student aid at all. ...

Genome-Wide Association Study Identifies 74 Loci Associated with Educational Attainment

Educational attainment is strongly influenced by social and other environmental factors, but genetic factors are estimated to account for at least 20% of the variation across individuals1. Here we report the results of a genome-wide association study (GWAS) for educational attainment that extends our earlier discovery sample1, 2 of 101,069 individuals to 293,723 individuals, and a replication study ...

Cognitive Skills, Non-Cognitive Skills, and Family Background: Evidence from Sibling Correlations

This paper estimates sibling correlations in cognitive and non-cognitive skills to evaluate the importance of family background for skill formation. Based on a large representative German dataset including IQ test scores and measures of non-cognitive skills, a restricted maximum likelihood model indicates a strong relationship between family background and skill formation. Sibling correlations in non-cognitive ...