Thema Bildung

Coronavirus and Care: How the Coronavirus Crisis Affected Fathers’ Involvement in Germany

Background: Some have hypothesized that the coronavirus crisis may result in a retraditionalization of behaviour. This paper examines this hypothesis by analyzing how the time fathers and mothers spent with their children changed during the first lockdown in the case of Germany.Methods: Data for this investigation come from the German Socio-Economic Panel. The outcome variable is the time spent on ...

Web-Based and Mixed-Mode Cognitive Large-Scale Assessments in Higher Education: An Evaluation of Selection Bias, Measurement Bias, and Prediction Bias

Educational large-scale studies typically adopt highly standardized settings to collect cognitive data on large samples of respondents. Increasing costs alongside dwindling response rates in these studies necessitate exploring alternative assessment strategies such as unsupervised web-based testing. Before respective assessment modes can be implemented on a broad scale, their impact on cognitive measurements ...

Analysing Effects of Birth Order on Intelligence, Educational Attainment, Big Five, and Risk Aversion in an Indonesian Sample

Few studies have examined birth order effects on personality in countries that are not Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD). However, theories have generally suggested that interculturally universal family dynamics are the mechanism behind birth order effects, and prominent theories such as resource dilutionwould predict even stronger linear effects in poorer countries. Here, ...

Parental Wealth and Children's Cognitive Ability, Mental, and Physical Health: Evidence from the UK Millenium Cohort Study

This article investigates the influence of wealth, a frequently neglected aspect of the economic circumstances of families, on children’s development. Using the UK Millennium Cohort Study, it explores whether parental wealth (net total wealth, net housing wealth, net financial wealth, and house value) is associated with children’s cognitive ability, mental, and physical health at age 11 (N = 8,645), ...

Bildungspolitik in Pandemiezeiten: Schluss mit der Zeitvergeudung! Kommentar

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Parental Separation during Childhood and Adult Children’s Wealth

This study examines the association between parental separations during childhood and economic wealth of adult children. We provide a new test of this relationship and address two unresolved debates in the literature concerning (1) the pathways linking parental separation and adult children’s wealth and (2) the relevance of the timing of exposure. We use data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics ...

Ein Digitalpakt für Kitas ist überfällig

Wie die Corona-Pandemie und ihre Begleiterscheinungen gesellschaftliche Phänomene sichtbarer machen, wird gerne mit dem Bild eines Brennglases beschrieben. Die Pandemie ist demnach auch eine ”Sehhilfe”. Sie macht deutlich, dass die Bedeutung der frühen Bildung in Deutschland nicht hinreichend erkannt ist. Das gilt insbesondere für die Bedeutung der frühen Bildung, die ...

Bildung und Familie in Corona-Zeiten: Neue Ausgabe des Bildungs- und Familiennewsletters erschienen

Zum Jahresausklang gibt es ein Update zur Bildungs- und Familienforschung am DIW Berlin - in der neuesten Ausgabe des Newsletters "Bildung und Familie @ DIW Berlin". Im Mittelpunkt stehen die Herausforderungen in Zusammenhang mit der Corona-Pandemie - doch auch andere Forschungsthemen sind in diesem Jahr nicht zu kurz gekommen. Ein Forschungsprojekt zum Thema "Motherhood penalty", Weiterbildung in ...

School Types: Evidence on the relative effectiveness of different school arrangements