The Verein für Socialpolitik has awarded Mathias Huebener, a Post Doctoral Research Associate at the DIW Education and Family Department, with the prize for best dissertation in educational economics. His dissertation is titled "Essays on the impact of education and family policies on the formation of human capital". The prize is awarded every two years.
Bereits vor rund zehn Jahren hat der Publizist Frank Schirrmacher auf die sich abzeichnenden „dunklen Seiten“ der Digitalisierung aufmerksam gemacht und als künftigen zentralen (Weiter)-Bildungsauftrag die Unterscheidung zwischen wichtiger und unwichtiger Information identifiziert. In seinem Buch „Payback“ heißt es: „Schulen müssen Computer als Instrumente ...
Dieser Beitrag ist am 25. Januar in der ZEIT ONLINE–Kolumne „Fratzschers Verteilungsfragen“ erschienen. Die Bundesregierung hat vor einigen Wochen ein „Gute-Kita-Gesetz“ beschlossen. Zusätzliche 5,5 Milliarden Euro sollen bis 2022 vom Bund in die Verbesserung der Kitas fließen. Das Gesetz ist ein Anfang, muss aber deutlich verbessert ...
Abstract:I present evidence on the association between individuals' cognitive abilities, personality traits, and earnings in Poland. I find that cognitive skills and certain personality traits are complements. In particular, I find that cognitive skills and emotional stability are complementary, with neurotic individuals having significantly lower returns to their cognitive skills....
by Herbert Brücker, Johannes Croisier, Yuliya Kosyakova, Hannes Kröger, Giuseppe Pietrantuono, Nina Rother and Jürgen Schupp Asylum seekers migrating to Germany remains a hotly debated topic. The second wave of a longitudinal survey of refugees shows that their integration has progressed significantly, even though some refugees came to Germany in poor health and with little formal education. ...
While several studies suggest that stress-related mental health problems among school children are related to specific elements of schooling, empirical evidence on this causal relationship is scarce. We examine a German schooling reform that increased weekly instruction time and study its effects on stress-related outpatient diagnoses from the universe of health claims data of the German Social Health ...
