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Success in the University Admission Process in Germany: Regional Provenance Matters
Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
School education in Germany is under the responsibility of the federal states and as a consequence average grades differ widely across regions. Since school leavers apply nationwide for admission to university, regional provenance may thus matter a lot for the success probability in the...
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Anreize wirken: deutsche Wirtschaftsforschungsinstitute im Aufwind
Ketzler, Rolf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
Vor zehn Jahren hat der deutsche Wissenschaftsrat mit seiner Forderung nach einer Verstärkung der akademischen Forschungsleistungen an den deutschen Wirtschaftsforschungsinstituten einen Regimewechsel eingeleitet. Der Anstoß wurde von der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft, der Dachgesellschaft der...
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A Policy Agenda for Diversity and Minority Integration
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
The social and labor market integration of ethnic minorities in the EU is still a major political, societal and economic challenge. Based on evidence presented in Kahanec and Zimmermann (2011), this policy paper proposes an agenda for diversity and minority integration in the European labor...
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Does Gender Affect Investors' Appetite for Risk?: Evidence from Peer-to-Peer Lending
Barasinska, Nataliya - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
This study investigates the role of gender in financial risk-taking. Specifically, I ask whether female investors tend … expected return and its standard deviation, whereas standard deviation serves as a measure of risk. Gender differences … of risk preferences across investors. Estimation results provide no evidence of gender differences in investors' risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009018188
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The Effects of Conflict on Fertility in Rwanda
Schindler, Kati; Brück, Tilman - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
The aim of this paper is to study the short and long-term fertility effects of mass violent conflict on different population sub-groups. The authors pool three nationally representative demographic and health surveys from before and after the genocide in Rwanda, identifying conflict exposure of...
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Risk Attitudes and Investment Decisions across European Countries: Are Women More Conservative Investors than Men?
Badunenko, Oleg; Barasinska, Nataliya; Schäfer, Dorothea - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
financial risks. The empirical evidence we provide only weakly supports the gender differences argument. We find that women are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010661284
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Are Women More Credit-Constrained than Men?: Evidence from a Rising Credit Market
Barasinska, Nataliya; Schäfer, Dorothea - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
This study investigates whether gender discrimination is taking place in an innovative credit market known as peer … average higher interest rates than males despite the fact that the two gender groups do not differ with respect to their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010661285
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Are Women More Credit-Constrained than Men?: Evidence from a Rising Credit Market
Barasinska, Nataliya; Schäfer, Dorothea - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
This study investigates whether gender discrimination is taking place in an innovative credit market known as peer … average higher interest rates than males despite the fact that the two gender groups do not differ with respect to their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128102
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Risk Attitudes and Investment Decisions across European Countries: Are Women More Conservative Investors than Men?
Badunenko, Oleg; Barasinska, Nataliya; Schäfer, Dorothea - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
financial risks. The empirical evidence we provide only weakly supports the gender differences argument. We find that women are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128105
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Post-Socialist Transition and the Intergenerational Transmission of Education in Kyrgyzstan
Brück, Tilman; Esenaliev, Damir - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013
document that gender differences in schooling and educational mobility, found among older-aged individuals, disappeared in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128838