Neue digitale Technologien gelten als Problemlöser für bestehende Herausforderungen des Agribusiness. Als Transmissionsriemen dieser Technologien rücken verstärkt junge, innovative Wachstumsunternehmen in den Fokus von Wirtschaft, Politik, Verbänden und Medien. Die Förderung des...

Auf dem sog. Bildungsgipfel zwischen Bund und Ländern 2008 hatten die Bundeskanzlerin und die Ministerpräsident/innen der Länder verschiedene Ziele für die Bildungsrepublik Deutschland vereinbart, die bis zum Jahr 2015 erreicht werden sollten: Weniger Schulabbrecher/innen und Menschen ohne...

In Deutschland und in der Schweiz werden neben querschnittsmäßig angelegten Bevölkerungsbefragungen auch (Haushalts-)Befragungen im Längsschnitt durchgeführt. Diese ermöglichen für einige Altersgruppen und spezifische Haushaltskonstellationen Aussagen zu multilokalen Arrangements....

Dieser Beitrag stellt Multilokalität in den Kontext zweier verschiedener an den Lebensverlauf gebundener Erfordernisse: 1. bei Ausbildung der Kinder (Studierende) und 2. bei Pflege der Eltern. Wenngleich emotionale und rationale Bestimmungsfaktoren die multilokale Lebensführung beider...

Für ein Studium verlassen viele junge Menschen ihr Elternhaus, wobei sie häufig dort noch über ein Zimmer verfügen und somit multilokal leben. Die Ergebnisse einer Befragung von Studierenden des Karlsruher Instituts für Technologie zeigen, dass immerhin ein Viertel der Befragten mit einem...

Die Zahl der Studienanfänger dürfte auch in diesem Jahr bei rund 500.000 liegen, da sich sinkende Auslandsnachfrage und steigende inländische Nachfrage gegenseitig weitgehend ausgleichen. Mittel- bis langfristig dürfte auch die sinkende Zahl der Ausbildungsverträge die Abiturienten- und...

The impacts of COVID-19 reach far beyond the hundreds of thousands of lives lost to the disease; in particular, the pre-existing learning crisis is expected to be magnified during school shutdown. Despite efforts to put distance learning strategies in place, the threat of student dropouts,...

We use administrative data from Ireland to study differences in college application behaviour between students from disadvantaged versus advantaged high schools. Ireland provides an interesting laboratory for this analysis as applicants provide a preferenceordering of college programs (majors)...

Much research has shown that having a better class of degree has significant payoff in the labour market. Using administrative data from Ireland, we explore the performance in college of different types of students. We find that post-primary school achievement is an important predictor: Its...

Detecting racial discrimination using observational data is challenging because of the presence of unobservables that may be correlated with race. Using data made public in the SFFA v. Harvard case, we estimate discrimination in a setting where this concern is mitigated. Namely, we show that...

We ran a field experiment at a large Dutch school for intermediate vocational education to examine whether the response of teachers to student feedback depends on the content of the feedback. Students evaluated all teachers, but only a randomly selected group of teachers received feedback....

This paper examines the effects of student ability on teacher turnover using data from Stockholm high schools and an admission reform that led to the exogenous reshuffling of pupils. The results indicate that a 10-percentile-point increase in student credentials decreases the probability of a...

A limited number of studies have investigated the impacts of education on non-cognitive skills, yet they offer mixed results. A few studies suggest no impact, but others report positive impacts of education on non-cognitive skills. In this paper, we apply the elimination of Social Security...

Depending on the context at hand, people's preference for receiving feedback might differ. Especially in allocation decisions that directly concern another individual, feedback from the affected person can have positive or negative value. We study such preferences in a laboratory experiment by...

This study aims to evaluate the impact of internship programs on the professional as well as on personal development and skills of business students in Pakistan. The data of the study consisted of 800 undergraduating business students of 4-year degree programs from 15 universities of Pakistan....

In recent years, many countries have experienced a significant expansion of higher education enrolment. There is a particular interest among policy makers for further growth in STEM subjects, which could lead to larger classes in these fields. This study estimates the effect of class size on...

We find robust evidence that cohorts of graduates who enter college during worse economic times earn higher average wages than those who enter during better times. This difference is not explained by differences in economic conditions at the time of college graduation, changes in field of study...

Using data from a Canadian field experiment on the financial barriers to higher education, we estimate the distribution of the value of financial aid for prospective students. Our results point out that a considerable share of prospective students are affected by credit constraints. We find that...

We ran a field experiment at a large Dutch school for intermediate vocational education to examine whether the response of teachers to student feedback depends on the content of the feedback. Students evaluated all teachers, but only a randomly selected group of teachers received feedback....

We examine changes in inequality in socio-emotional skills very early in life in two British cohorts born 30 years apart. We construct comparable scales using two validated instruments for the measurement of child behaviour and identify two dimensions of socio-emotional skills: 'internalising'...

The rapid spread of new coronaviruses throughout China and the world in 2019-2020 has had a great impact on China's economic and social development. As the backbone of Chinese society, Chinese universities have made significant contributions to emergency risk management. Such contributions have...

Neue digitale Technologien gelten als Problemlöser für bestehende Herausforderungen des Agribusiness. Als Transmissionsriemen dieser Technologien rücken verstärkt junge, innovative Wachstumsunternehmen in den Fokus von Wirtschaft, Politik, Verbänden und Medien. Die Förderung des...

Using administrative data from a large 4-year public university, we show that male students are 18.6 percent more likely than female students to receive favorable grade changes. These gender differences cannot be explained by observable characteristics of the students, instructors, and the...

In recent years, many countries have experienced a significant expansion of higher education enrolment. There is a particular interest among policy makers for further growth in STEM subjects, which could lead to larger classes in these fields. This study estimates the effect of class size on...

Much research has shown that having a better class of degree has significant payoff in the labour market. Using administrative data from Ireland, we explore the performance in college of different types of students. We find that post-primary school achievement is an important predictor: Its...

Context: In the Dutch educational system, different learning pathways to higher professional bachelor (or HBO) programmes have been created: the regular VET route, the general secondary education route, and continuing learning pathways (such as the Green Lyceum or GL) that combine...

Much research has shown that having a better class of degree has a significant payoff in the labour market. Using administrative data from Ireland, we explore the performance in college of different types of students. We find that post-primary school achievement is an important predictor: Its...

We use administrative data from Ireland to study differences in college application behaviour between students from disadvantaged versus advantaged high schools. Ireland provides an interesting laboratory for this analysis as applicants provide a preference-ordering of college programs (majors)...