This study examines how conditional aid eligibility influences students’ application behaviors using extensive data from the French national application platform, Admission Post Bac (APB). Employing a generalized difference-in differences approach, we analyze the impact of an exogenous change in the income threshold for financial aid eligibility. Our primary focus is on high-achieving students, a...
Over the past decades, the share of very young children in daycare has increased significantly in many OECD countries, including Germany. Despite the relevance of child health for child development and later life success, the effect of early daycare attendance on health has received little attention in the economic literature. In this study, I investigate the impact of a large daycare expansion in...
A considerable share of low-skilled workers in Germany perform speciali-zed activities for which some kind of formal vocational qualification is required.This article examines the role of non-formal in-company training for the careeradvancement of low-skilled workers in the internal labor market. The focus is onthe role of regulating structures. Based on the human capital and filter theory aswell as ...
We describe the joint permanent health distribution of parents and children in Germany using 25 years of data from the Socio-Economic Panel. We derive three main results: First, a ten percentile increase in parental permanent health is associated with a 2.3 percentile increase in their child’s health. Second, employing our anchoring method, we find that a percentile point increase in permanent health ...
Der Verein für Socialpolitik hat zur Bearbeitung seines Schwerpunktthemas „Nachwuchs“ für die Dauer der Kalenderjahre 2021–2022 eine Arbeitsgruppe eingerichtet – im Folgenden: AG Nachwuchs –, deren Aufgabe das Vorlegen eines umfassenden Berichts zur Situation der VWL-Promovierenden und -PostDocs im DACH-Raum ist. Gestützt auf Datenerhebungen und strukturierte Interviews formuliert die AG Nachwuchs ...
Studie auf Basis von SOEP-Daten zeigt: Kinder machen unter anderem seltener (Fach-)Abitur, wenn ein Elternteil arbeitslos war – Studiendesign erlaubt es, gemessene Effekte kausal zu interpretieren – Ergebnisse verdeutlichen Abhängigkeit des Bildungserfolgs vom Elternhaus – Bildungspolitik sollte dem entgegenwirken, Ganztagsschulausbau ist wichtiger Schritt Sind die Eltern in der Grundschulzeit ihres ...
This study asks how work intensity differs between nurses that work in three different hospital settings: 1) non-digitalized hospital, 2) digitalized hospital and 3) digitalized+semi-automated hospital. Theoretical and political expectations are that nurses experience less work intensity with higher digital maturity of the hospital. The digital transformation of hospitals is a current political...