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The private and fiscal returns to higher education

We quantify the private and fiscal lifetime returns to higher education in Germany accounting for the redistribution through the tax-and-transfer system, cohort effects, and the effect of income pooling within households. For this purpose we build a dynamic microsimulation model that simulates individual life cycles of a young German cohort in terms of several key variables, such as employment, earnings, ...

The Social Consequences of the Increase in Refugees to Germany

Global norms, regional practices: Taste-based and statistical discrimination in German asylum decision-making

Asylum policy-making in advanced democracies frequently faces the accusation that prejudice and stereotyping lead to erroneous decisions. The model of taste-based discrimination suggests that the biases of decision-makers or their peers against certain groups of applicants influence the evaluation of an asylum claim. Conversely, the concept of statistical discrimination implies that a dearth of information ...

Verändert ein Kind die eigene Persönlichkeit? Eine Psychologin fand überraschende Antworten (Interview mit Eva Asselmann)

Kaum etwas verändert einen Menschen so, wie die Geburt des eigenen Kindes – davon sind zumeist Eltern überzeugt. Aber stimmt das auch? Die Persönlichkeits-Psychologin Eva Asselmann hat mit einer Kollegin über Jahrzehnte gesammelte Daten von bis zu 30.000 Personen ausgewertet. Und kommt zu einem völlig anderen Schluss.

Unsichere Arbeit: Sorgen und Ängste von Beschäftigten im Gastgewerbe nach Einführung des gesetzlichen Mindestlohns

Die rechte Mitte?: Zur Rolle objektiver Position und subjektiver Verunsicherung für die Identifikation mit rechten Parteien

Seroepidemiological study on the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in Germany: Study protocol of the ‘CORONA-MONITORING bundesweit’ study (RKI-SOEP study)

The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has spread rapidly across Germany. Infections are likely to be under-recorded in the notification data from local health authorities on laboratory-confirmed cases since SARS-CoV-2 infections can proceed with few symptoms and then often remain undetected. Seroepidemiological studies allow the estimation of the proportion in the population that has been infected with SARS-CoV-2 ...

Seroepidemiologische Studie zur bundesweiten Verbreitung von SARS-CoV-2 in Deutschland: Studienprotokoll von CORONA-MONITORING bundesweit (RKI-SOEP-Studie)

Das Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 hat sich in kurzer Zeit bundesweit ausgebreitet. In den Meldedaten der Gesundheitsämter zu laborbestätigten Infektionsfällen ist von einer Untererfassung des Infektionsgeschehens auszugehen, da Infektionen häufig unentdeckt bleiben, zum Beispiel weil sie symptomarm verlaufen. In seroepidemiologischen Studien kann der Bevölkerungsanteil mit durchgemachter SARS-CoV-2-Infektion ...

Personality changes associated with increasing environmental concerns

Using data from 58,748 participants from a nationally representative German sample, we tested preregistered hypotheses about factors that impact concerns about the environment over time. We found that environmental concerns increased modestly from 2009 to 2017. Individuals in middle adulthood tended to be more concerned and showed more consistent increases in concern over time than younger or older ...

Higher education funding in Germany: a distributional lifetime perspective

In this paper, I analyze how the higher education decision of young adults in Germany depends on their expected future earnings. For this, I estimate a microeconometric model in which individuals maximize life-time utility by choosing whether or not to enter higher education. To forecast individual life cycles in terms of employment, earnings, and family formation under higher education and its alternative, ...