The German education system is characterized by strong social inequalities in university access. These may be reduced by offering individual counseling sessions to students in their final two years of high school. The study "Zukunftsund Berufspläne nach dem Abitur" (ZuBAb)1 examines how such...

We demonstrate in a laboratory experiment in which subjects play a two-player Cournot-Tullock game over hundreds of periods of varying length that full accounts of subjects' learning requires the consideration of, both, 'period time' and 'physical time.'

In diesem Discussion Paper wird der Zwischenbericht der Studie "Zugang zum Recht in Berlin" unter der Leitung von Prof. Dr. Michael Wrase am Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin vorgestellt. Die Studie wird seit Dezember 2020 gefördert von der Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Justiz, Vielfalt und...

The smart glove or smart data glasses: Digitalization of work means that technology is moving closer to the bodies of employees. It can make movements, vital signs and even emotions visible. Technologies which many people use privately to monitor their sporting activities or health opens up a...

The transport sector has so far shown little success in reducing emissions. Demand-side solutions such as lifestyle and behavioural changes of individuals and private households entail extensive reduction potential that could greatly complement technological solutions in transport. Private...

The effects that the economic crisis triggered by COVID-19 is having on unemployment could hardly differ more than in the United States and Europe. This divergence also applies to the political reactions to it. Whereas the 27 member states of the European Union (EU-27) managed to keep...

We consider a single psychological agent whose utility depends on his action, the state of the world, and the belief that he holds about that state. The agent is initially informed about the state and decides whether to memorize it, otherwise he has no recall. We model the memorization process...

The increasing density and entanglement of international law and institutions leads to a growing potential for collisions between norms and rules emanating from different international institutions. It is an open question, however, when actors actually create manifest conflicts about overlapping...

We study the causal relationship between moral values ("ought" statements) and factual beliefs ("is" statements) and show that, contrary to predictions of orthodox Bayesian models, values exert an influence on beliefs. This effect is mediated by prior political leanings and, thus, contributes to...

Die empirische Studie gibt erstmals einen umfassenden Überblick über die politischen Potentiale des Corona-Protests in Deutschland. Basierend auf Umfragedaten zeigt sie, dass dieser Protest ein erhebliches und relativ stabiles Mobilisierungspotenzial in der deutschen Bevölkerung besitzt....