Thema Bildung

Gender Gap in der finanziellen Bildung: Einkommen, Bildung und Erfahrung erklären ihn nur zum Teil

Frauen haben in den meisten Ländern eine durchschnittlich schlechtere finanzielle Bildung als Männer. Dieser Bericht weist nach, dass Unterschiede im Einkommen und der Bildung sowie geringere Erfahrungen mit Finanzen diesen Gender Gap nur teilweise erklären. Zudem wird mittels Daten aus verschiedenen Ländern gezeigt, dass kulturelle Unterschiede auch eine Rolle spielen. Um den Gender Gap in der finanziellen ...

In den meisten Ländern wissen Frauen im Durchschnitt weniger als Männer über Finanzen: Interview mit Antonia Grohmann

The Impact of Lengthening the School Day on Substance Abuse and Crime: Evidence from a German High School Reform

In the 2000s, a major educational reform in Germany reduced the academic high school duration by one year while keeping constant the total number of instructional hours before graduation. The instructional hours from the eliminated school year shifted to lower grade levels, which increased the time younger students spend at school. This study explores the impact of the reform on youth crime rates and ...

The Development and Happiness of Very Young Children

The paper demonstrates how Sen’s (1985) alternative approach to welfare economics can be used to shed light on the wellbeing of very young children. More specifically, we estimate versions of the three key relations from his framework using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP, 2012) Survey. Our primary models provide evidence that skills are related to involvement in cognate activities ...

Die verquere Logik des Club of Rome

Wie die Kombination von Messungen helfen kann, die Risikobereitschaft besser einzuschätzen

In vielen Ländern der Welt, Deutschland eingeschlossen, sind Finanzberater (hier Personen, die Privatanleger bei Finanzanlagen beraten) heutzutage gesetzlich verpflichtet, die Risikoeinstellung ihrer Kunden zu erfassen, um ihnen dabei zu helfen, die passendste Anlageentscheidung zu treffen. Die meisten Institutionen, die eine Finanzberatung anbieten (beispielsweise Banken), verwenden für diese Erfassung ...

Parental Health and Child Behavior: Evidence from Parental Health Shocks

This study examines the importance of parental health in the development of child behavior during early childhood. Our analysis is based on child psychometric measures from a longitudinal German dataset, which tracks mothers and their newborns up to age six. We identify major changes in parental health (shocks) and control for a variety of initial characteristics of the child including prenatal conditions. ...

Moving Home in the Early Years: What Happens to Children in the Uk?

Children’s early years are a time when many families move home. Does residential mobility affect children’s wellbeing at age five in terms of cognitive and behavioural development? The question arises as moving home is sometimes portrayed as a stressful life event adversely affecting child development, particularly if frequent. Other studies suggest a more mixed role for home moves, which may reflect ...

Human Capital Returns to Education: Three Essays on the Causal Effects of Schooling on Skills and Health

The Family Working Time Model - Toward More Gender Equality in Work and Care

Since the millennium, the labor market participation of women and mothers is increasing across European countries. Several work/care policy measures underlie this evolution. At the same time, the labor market behavior of men and fathers, as well as their involvement in care work, is relatively unchanging, meaning that employed mothers are facing an increased burden with respect to gainful employment ...