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Differential use and effectiveness of practice testing: Who benefits and who engages?

Practice testing is an effective learning strategy, yet low-achieving students often underutilize it despite its benefits. This study investigates who benefits from and who engages in practice testing within an authentic educational setting. We collected data from 325 undergraduates (56 % self-identified as female) in a gateway mathematics course, combining survey responses, practice testing records, ...

Winners and Losers: The Effects of Monetary Policy on Income and Consumption Inequality

Recent studies have examined the impact of monetary policy on economic inequality, but have focused on advanced economies and wealth inequality. We analyse the impact of monetary policy on income and consumption inequality estimated from a household level dataset in India. We apply Sign-Restricted VAR and Local Projection models to monthly data for 2014–2023. We show that contractionary monetary policy ...

SOEP-Core v38.1 – Sample Sizes and Panel Attrition in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) (Years 1984 to 2021)

SOEP-Core v39 – Sample Sizes and Panel Attrition in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) (Years 1984 to 2022)

SOEP-Core v40 – Sample Sizes and Panel Attrition in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) (Years 1984 to 2023)

SOEP-Core v41 – Sample Sizes and Panel Attrition in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) (Years 1984 to 2024)

Challenges and progress in labor market integration: Job search, scope and quality of employment

What an (Un) Favorable Match: Public Sector Employment and the Reversal of the Overeducation-Job Satisfaction Penalty

It is a well-documented phenomenon that individuals with higher education than required for their job report lower job satisfaction. However, whether this also applies to public sector employees remains unclear. The German case reveals a negative relationship between overeducation and job satisfaction in the private sector, which is reversed to positive for public sector employees. This holds robust ...

How do individuals interact with the police? Validation of a scale of motivational postures toward the police in Spanish

This article addressed the critical issue of citizens’ attitudes toward law enforcement, focusing on motivational postures toward the police (i.e., the psychological dispositions that individuals maintain toward the police). The study contributes by providing the first validated motivational postures scale toward the police in Spanish. It responds to a gap in research on motivational postures within ...

The Impact of a New Workplace Technology on Employees

How does the implementation of a new technology affect workers? Using detailed worker-level data for Germany, we analyse the impact of new technologies on non-monetary working conditions such as overtime, training and perceived labour intensity. We show that the strongest effects arise in the first year of their implementation. These effects diminish after the introduction period. We further provide ...