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Refereed essays Web of Science
Despite increasing access to university education, students from disadvantaged or non-academic family backgrounds are still underrepresented in universities. In this regard, the economics literature has focused on the role of financial constraints as a cause of these observed differences in educational choices. Our knowledge of potential effects of other constraints regarding university education is ...
In:
Economics of Education Review
60 (2017), S. 125-141
| Frauke H. Peter, Vaishali Zambre
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Externe Monographien
This dissertation consists of three self-contained research articles, each making an independent contribution to the higher education literature.
Berlin:
Freie Univ.,
2017,
183 S.
| Vaishali Zambre-Rehbein
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Refereed essays Web of Science
The last 20 years have seen a substantial increase in enrolment in early childhood education and care (ECEC) in several European countries. The expansion of ECEC services inevitably requires new staff. There is however a tension between a rapid growth of services via the creation of low-paid, low-qualified jobs and the aspiration, voiced unanimously by policy makers, to improve the qualification and ...
In:
Journal of European Social Policy
27 (2017), 4, S. 320-331
| Ludovica Gambaro
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SOEPpapers 938 / 2017
The aim of this paper is to construct the “space of capital” based on disaggregated measures of capital portfolios and to analyze the dynamics of class mobility over time. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of the “social space”, we argue that it is possible to directly assess the structural dimensions of the social space as a space of (economic and cultural) capital, including wealth as an important ...
2017| Nora Waitkus, Olaf Groh-Samberg
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SOEPpapers 939 / 2017
Economic theory predicts market failure in the market for early childhood education and care (ECEC) due to information asymmetries. We empirically investigate information asymmetries between parents and ECEC professionals in Germany, making use of a unique extension of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). It allows us to compare quality perceptions by parents and pedagogic staff of 734 ECEC ...
2017| Georg F. Camehl, Pia S. Schober, C. Katharina Spieß
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Refereed essays Web of Science
In a meta-analysis of 126 impact evaluation studies, we find that financial education significantly impacts financial behavior and, to an even larger extent, financial literacy. These results also hold for the subsample of randomized experiments (RCTs). However, intervention impacts are highly heterogeneous: financial education is less effective for low-income clients as well as in low- and lower-middle–income ...
In:
The World Bank Economic Review
31 (2017), 3, S. 611-630
| Tim Kaiser, Lukas Menkhoff
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DIW Discussion Papers 1692 / 2017
Motivations to participate in the labour market as well as to invest in labour market skills are crucial for the successful integration of refugees. In this paper we use a unique dataset – the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Refugee Survey, which is a representative longitudinal study of all refugees reported on administrative records in Germany – and analyse which determinants and characteristics are correlated with ...
2017| Peter Haan, Martin Kroh, Kent Troutman
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Non-refereed Articles
This essay analyses universal early childhood education and care (ECEC) services from an economic perspective focusing on universal ECEC approaches. First, it examines the effectiveness of ECEC expansions, reviewing research using quasi-experimental approaches. It then discusses the possible mechanisms underlying the measured effects. These are related to both direct effects from ECEC services on children ...
In:
Robert A. Scott, Stephen M. Kosslyn, Nancy Pinkerton (Eds.) ,
Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Interdisciplinary, Searchable, and Linkable Resource
Hoboken : Wiley
| C. Katharina Spieß
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SOEPpapers 935 / 2017
Using a representative sample of the German adult population, this paper investigates the extent to which a survey measure of present bias predicts present-biased choice behavior in incentive-compatible experiments and real-world outcomes related to in-vestments in financial assets and human capital. The results are threefold. First, the survey and experimental measures of present bias are significantly ...
2017| Pia R. Pinger
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DIW Economic Bulletin 33/34/35 / 2017
Towards the very end of this legislative period, a cross-caucus parliamentary majority gave same-sex marriage the green light – progress for the legal equality of homosexuals in Germany. This report focuses on the life situations of homosexual and bisexual people in Germany. The careers they pursue, for example, differ from those of heterosexuals. Hourly wages are an area of significant disparity: ...
2017| Martin Kroh, Simon Kühne, Christian Kipp, David Richter