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The impact of student aid eligibility on higher education applications

Remigereau, Camille; Schäper, Clara - 2024

This study examines how student aid eligibility influences application decisions to higher education using administrative data from France. We study the impact of a change in income thresholds for aid eligibility. We find that aid eligibility did not have a uniform effect on students'...

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Better together? Heterogeneous effects of tracking on student achievement

Matthewes, Sönke Hendrik - 2018

. My results show that decreasing the degree of tracking in early secondary school can reduce inequality while increasing …

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Personality and career: she's got what it takes

Fietze, Simon; Holst, Elke; Tobsch, Verena - 2009

looking at the impact of self-reported personality traits on gender differences in career chances. We compare managers and …-Economic Panel (SOEP) in 2005 show that there are significant gender differences in personality traits, multivariate estimations …, personality traits might indeed play a role, albeit more indirectly: Some of the stronger career effects, such as work experience …

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Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie F.; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2006

This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation.

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Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie F.; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2006

The paper investigates the role of social norms as a determinant of individual attitudes by analyzing risk proclivity reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We employ factor analysis to construct measures of immigrants? ethnic persistence and assimilation....

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Locus of control and mothers' return to employment

Berger, Eva M.; Haywood, Luke - 2016

This paper investigates the effect of locus of control (LOC) on the length of mothers' employment break after childbirth. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), duration data reveals that women with an internal LOC return to employment more quickly than women with an...

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Understanding day care enrolment gaps

Jessen, Jonas; Schmitz, Sophia; Waights, Sevrin - 2019

We document day care enrolment gaps by family background for children under 3 in Germany. Research demonstrates that children of less-educated or foreign-born parents benefit most from day care, making it important to understand the causes of such enrolment gaps. Using a unique data set that...

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Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income

Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Prowse, Victoria - 2017

In this paper, we study how the tax-and-transfer system reduces the inequality of lifetime income by redistributing … offsets around half of the inequality in lifetime earnings that is due to differences in skill endowments. At the same time …, taxes and transfers mitigate around 60% of the inequality in lifetime earnings that is attributable to employment and health …

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Heterogeneous effects of afterschool care on child development

Schmitz, Laura - 2022

It is often argued that institutionalized after-school care (ASC) can benefit children lacking adequate homework support at home and, hence, foster equality of opportunity. However, despite considerable policy interest, it is unclear whether these afternoon programs are beneficial for child...

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The broken elevator: Declining absolute mobility of living standards in Germany

Bönke, Timm; Harnack-Eber, Astrid; Lüthen, Holger - 2024

higher income inequality contributed similarly to these trends. …

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