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Does Ignorance of Economic Returns and Costs Explain the Educational Aspiration Gap? Evidence From Representative Survey Experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018

returns and costs explains educational inequality in Germany. …

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Mentoring and schooling decisions: Causal evidence

Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Dovern-Pinger, Pia Rosina - 2020

Inequality of opportunity strikes when two children with the same academic performance are sent to diff erent quality …-intensity mentoring program can improve long-run education outcomes of low SES children and reduce inequality of opportunity. Low SES …

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COVID-19 and educational inequality: How school closures affect low-and high-achieving students

Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina - 2020

In spring 2020, governments around the globe shut down schools to mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus. We argue that low-achieving students may be particularly affected by the lack of educator support during school closures. We collect detailed time-use information on students before...

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Social mobility in Germany

Dodin, Majed; Findeisen, Sebastian; Henkel, Lukas; … - 2022

We characterize intergenerational mobility in Germany using census data on educational attainment and parental income for 526,000 children. Our measure of educational attainment is the A-Level degree, a requirement for access to university. A 10 percentile increase in the parental income rank is...

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Which is the More Predictable Gender? Public Good Contribution and Personality

Perugini, Marco; Tan, Jonathan H. W.; Zizzo, Daniel John - 2005

Personality questionnaires have been used and can be used to predict behavior in economic settings. Using two sets of … state-of-the-art measures from personality psychology (the Big Six) and social psychology (Social Value Orientation), we …

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Welfare while working: How does the life satisfaction approach help to explain job search behavior?

Wolf, Tobias - 2020

This paper examines the role of life satisfactioninthe labor market behavior of workers receiving welfare benefits while working. Welfare stigma and other hard-to-observe factors may affect outcomes as on-the-job search and the duration until leaving welfare status. We utilize life satisfaction...

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Are Women in Science Less Ambitious than Men? Experimental Evidence on the Role of Gender and STEM in Promotion Applications

Süer, Müge - 2023

The gender wage gap is to a significant extent driven by gender-based job segregation. One of the potential culprits can be found in supply-side behavioral differences in promotion applications. In this study, using a controlled lab experiment, we disentangle the roles of gender, field of study,...

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Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income

Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Prowse, Victoria - 2019

life-cycle model, we find that redistribution by taxes and transfers off sets 54% of the inequality in lifetime earnings …

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Optimal need-based financial aid

Colas, Mark; Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2019

We study the optimal design of student financial aid as a function of parental income. We derive optimal financial aid formulas in a general model. For a simple model version, we derive mild conditions on primitives under which poorer students receive more aid even without distributional...

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Educational Inequality and Public Policy Preferences: Evidence From Representative Survey Experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018

To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey … experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality … strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …

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