This paper considers an unavoidable feature of the school environment, class rank. What are the long-run effects of a student's ordinal rank in elementary school? Using administrative data on all public-school students in Texas, we show that students with a higher third-grade academic rank, conditional on achievement and classroom fixed effects, have higher subsequent test scores, are more likely to ...
In Deutschland ist es noch ein weiter Weg zu einer partnerschaftlichen Aufteilung der Erwerbs- und Sorgearbeit zwischen Männern und Frauen: Bei den Beschäftigungsquoten und im Erwerbsumfang liegen Frauen deutlich hinter Männern, bei der Kinderbetreuung und Hausarbeit ist es umgekehrt. Diese ungleichen Zeitverwendungen stehen in unmittelbarem Zusammenhang zueinander: Ökonometrische Analysen in diesem ...
Two competing theories of social support and role specialization have been invoked to explain how marital status affects labour market outcomes. Whereas evidence of beneficial labour market outcomes among married men and employed married women favours a social support perspective, evidence of married women’s reduced labour market participation corresponds to a role specialization perspective. We make ...
Given the high number of refugee children and adolescents around the globe, it is critical to determine conditions that foster their adaptation in the receiving country. This study investigated the psychological adaptation of recently arrived adolescent refugees in Germany. We focused on whether psychological adaptation reflects the organizational approach taken by the school that refugee adolescents ...
We extend standard models of work-related training by explicitly incorporating workers’ locus of control into the investment decision through the returns they expect. Our model predicts that higher internal control results in increased take-up of general, but not specific, training. This prediction is empirically validated using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP). We provide empirical ...
Mobile money is an important instrument to improve the degree of financial inclusion, especially in developing countries. However, having a mobile money account does not imply that this account is actually used. In our sample, 86% of microentrepreneurs own a mobile money account, but only 49% actively use it – the resulting gap indicates unmet opportunities. We estimate that mobile money reaches up ...
Background Evidence on the relationship between socioeconomic position (SEP) and infections with SARS-CoV-2 is still limited as most of the available studies are ecological in nature. This is the first German nationwide study to examine differences in the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infections according to SEP at the individual level.Methods The ‘CORONA-MONITORING bundesweit’ (RKI-SOEP) study is a seroepidemiological ...
Unsere Gesellschaft könnte nach der Pandemie gespaltener sein als jemals zuvor in den vergangenen 70 Jahren. Die Regierung sollte alles daran setzten, dies zu verhindern. Mitten in der vierten Welle der Corona-Pandemie fokussiert sich die Debatte darauf, wie möglichst viele Menschen geimpft, die Pandemie möglichst schnell begrenzt und Unternehmen und Wirtschaft stabilisiert werden können. ...