This paper uses novel measures of individual differences that produce new insights about student inputs into the (higher) education production function. The inputs examined are lecture attendance and additional study-hours. The data were collected through a web-survey that the authors designed....

This paper uses novel measures of individual differences that produce new insights about student inputs into the (higher) education production function. The inputs examined are lecture attendance and additional study-hours. The data were collected through a websurvey that the authors designed....

This essay takes the intrusion of the term 'risk management' into the social policy discourse as a 'moral opportunity' to reconsider the balance between solidarity and individual responsibility. The argument is developed in three stages: first, the psychology of intuitive beliefs and choices...

Zunehmend ist von Risikomanagement die Rede. Für die Befürworter ist der Be-griff ein Hilfsmittel, um Managementtechniken aus der Betriebs- oder Finanzwirtschaft auch in die Sozial- und Arbeitsmarktpolitik zu übertragen; für die Kritiker ist der Begriff ein trojanisches Pferd, um neoliberale...

This paper uses novel measures of individual differences that produce new insights about student inputs into the (higher) education production function. The inputs examined are lecture attendance and additional study-hours. The data were collected through a web-survey that the authors designed....