This paper investigates how exposure to higher-achieving male and female peers in university affects students’ major … choices and labor market outcomes. For identification of causal effects, we exploit the random assignment of students to …

achievement. We exploit random assignment of students to university sections and find that students perform better in the presence … of more persistent peers and more risk-averse peers. In particular, low-persistence students benefit from highly …-persistent peers without devoting additional efforts to studying. However, highly-persistent students are not affected by the …

achievement. We exploit random assignment of students to university sections and find that students perform better in the presence … of more persistent peers and more risk-averse peers. In particular, low-persistence students benefit from highly …-persistent peers without devoting additional efforts to studying. However, highly-persistent students are not affected by the …

market and non-market income as well as taxes and social security contributions. This income portfolio analysis is based on … have an even better relative income position than the autochthonous West German population. In general, we confirm the well … profit slightly. This is due to above average non-market income of "pure" immigrants. However, East Germans are still much …

market and non-market income as well as taxes and social security contributions. This income portfolio analysis is based on … have an even better relative income position than the autochthonous West German population. In general, we confirm the well … profit slightly. This is due to above average non-market income of ?pure? immigrants. However, East Germans are still much …

. This paper contributes to this knowledge by examining the income mobility experienced by older people living in Britain and …. The comparative perspective yields insights about the different income experience of older people in the two markedly … different welfare regimes. Results show that old-age income mobility is more pronounced in Britain than in Germany, and that in …

inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration …

microdata from the German Federal Statistical Office's contribution to the European Union Statistics on Income and Living … from the German Survey of Income and Expenditure (EVS), the present paper compares EU-SILC-based results about income …