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Personalie
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.
20.02.2019
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Personalie
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.
20.02.2019
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Kommentar
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 ...
06.02.2019| Jürgen Schupp
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Blog Marcel Fratzscher
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 ...
30.01.2019| Marcel Fratzscher
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
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....
30.01.2019| Marta Palcznska (Institute for Structural Research)
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Weekly Report
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. ...
28.01.2019| Hannes Kröger, Jürgen Schupp
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Externe Working Papers
This paper summarises the output of a Nuffield-funded research project exploring inequalities in three aspects of children’s experience in early education in England. The main focus of the project was on ‘peer effects’ in pre-school settings: we examine the extent of clustering by income and language background and explore associations between pre-school peer group and children’s outcomes in early ...
London:
Systemic Risk Centre,
2019,
42 S.
(CASE ; 214)
| Tammy Campbell, Ludovica Gambaro, Kitty Stewart
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Externe Working Papers
This is the first paper to experimentally examine effects of information provision on beliefs about pecuniary and non-pecuniary returns of postgraduate education, enrollment intentions and realized enrollment. We find that our treatment causally affects beliefs measured six month after treatment. The effects on beliefs differ by gender and academic background, and we find that stated enrollment intentions ...
Bonn:
IZA,
2019,
37 S.
(Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 12735)
| Jan Berkes, Frauke Peter, C. Katharina Spiess, Felix Weinhardt
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Externe Working Papers
This paper experimentally examines the impacts of a largescale government program that increased the supply and quality of community preschools in rural Cambodia. The construction of new preschool facilities was paired with two demand-side interventions designed to stimulate additional enrollment into preschools. The newly constructed preschools caused an increase in enrollment rates but the demand-side ...
Washington:
World Bank,
2019,
69 S.
(Policy Research Working Paper ; 9070)
| Jan Berkes, Adrien Bouguen, Deon Filmer, Tsuyoshi Fukao
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
Despite considerable variation in gender-role attitudes across contexts and its claimed influence on female labour supply, studies provide little support for a contextual gender-role attitude effect. In this study, we reassess the contextual gender-role attitude effect on female labour supply because earlier studies are hampered by two shortcomings: (a) they are cross-nationally comparative, which ...
In:
European Sociological Review
35 (2019), 5, S. 669–683
| Wilfred Uunk, Philipp M. Lersch