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In the German school system, grades are the essential means of performance feedback and assignment. However, little research has been conducted on the factors that determine grades in addition to competencies, and existing findings are poorly replicated. Using data from the representative IQB Trends in Student Performance 2015 survey, our analysis combined a variety of personal and structural characteristics ...
In:
International Journal of Educational Research Open
2 (2021), 100101
| Michael Bayer, Sabine Zinn, Christin Rüdiger
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In recent decades, many affluent democracies moved from traditional welfare states to workfare systems. Meanwhile, income inequality developed differently across countries, even when they made apparently similar shifts from welfare to workfare. It is a matter of debate why welfare state change had such heterogeneous consequences across countries. This article proposes that different incentives to take ...
In:
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
80 (2022), 100712
| Barbara Binder, Andreas Haupt
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Germany’s labour market has weathered the COVID-19 crisis quite well. The unemployment rate increased by less than one percentage point between the last pre-crisis quarter Q4 2019 and its peak in Q3 2020 (from 3.2% to 4.1%); the employment rate fell by less than five percentage points (from 75.7% to 71.1%). Both indicators have since returned to their pre-crisis levels (OECD, forthcoming[1]). The widespread ...
Bonn:
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),
2022,
(IZA DP No. 15475)
| Carsten Braband, Valentina Sara Consiglio, Markus M. Grabka, Natascha Hainbach, Sebastian Königs
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Economic inequality is rising globally and due to developments in information technologies and globalization, nowadays individuals are more exposed to such an inequality than ever. Recent studies show that exposure to inequality may shape economic decisions. In this article, we test whether contributions in the public goods game are sensitive to information about inequality of personal benefits between ...
In:
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
92 (2021), 101679
| Pablo Brañas-Garza, Elena Molis, Levent Neyse
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This paper investigates how non-cognitive skills, e.g., memory, empathy, attention, imagination, and social skills – measured by personality characteristics – relate to the relative labour market performance of immigrants. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the Five-Factor Model of personality as a proxy for the non-cognitive skills, we show that these skills matter for the labour market ...
In:
PLOS ONE
18 (2023), 5, e0281048
| Alpaslan Akay, Levent Yilmaz
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There has been a revival of warfare and threats of interstate war in recent years as the number of countries engaged in armed conflict surged dramatically, reaching to levels unprecedented since the end of Cold War. This is happening at a time when the global burden of mental health illness is also on the rise. We examine the causal impact of early life exposure to warfare on long–term mental health, ...
Cambridge:
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER),
2022,
(NBER Working Paper 30284)
| Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Erdal Tekin, Belgi Turan
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We propose that false beliefs about the own current economic status are an important factor for explaining populist attitudes. Along with the subjects' receptiveness to right-wing populism, we elicit their perceived relative income positions in a representative survey of German households. We find that people with pessimistic beliefs about their income position are more attuned to populist statements. ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2022,
(SOEPpapers 1177)
| Thilo N. H. Albers, Felix Kersting, Fabian Kosse
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Background: Self-reported time-use in relation to health-related quality of life (HRQoL) has been widely studied, yet less is known about the directionality of the association and how it compares across genders when controlling for sociodemographic confounders. Methods: This study focused on the working population of the most recent waves (2013–2018) of the Core-Study of the German Socio-Economic Panel ...
In:
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
20 (2022), 1, 151
| Laura Altweck, Samuel Tomczyk, Silke Schmidt
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We investigate how locus of control beliefs – the extent to which individuals attribute control over events in their life to themselves as opposed to outside factors – affect prosocial behavior and the private provision of public goods. We begin by developing a conceptual framework showing how locus of control beliefs serve as a weight placed on the returns from one’s own contributions (impure altruism) ...
Cambridge:
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER),
2022,
(NBER Working Paper 30359)
| Mark A. Andor, James Cox, Andreas Gerster, Michael Price, Stephan Sommer, Lukas Tomberg
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Benjamin W. Arold prepared this study while he was working at the Center for Economics of Education at the ifo Institute. The study was completed in March 2022 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the LMU Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of how school curricula affect students in the classroom and beyond. Chapter 2 demonstrates ...
München:
ifo Institut,
2022,
(ifo Beiträge zur Wirtschaftsforschung 99)
| Benjamin W. Arold