Kinder mit Migrationshintergrund werden am Ende der Grundschule nicht diskriminiert. Bei gleicher Leistung und Sozialschicht werden sie mindestens so oft ans Gymnasium empfohlen wie ihre Mitschüler ohne Migrationshintergrund. Aber: Die Beurteilungskriterien bei Migranten sind nicht transparent.

This study focuses on school choice processes and how they contribute to ethnic school segregation. The starting point is a heuristic framework on school selection decisions with a sequence of three stages: the perception of school alternatives, the evaluation of these alternatives, and...

Working memory capacity is thought to play an important role for a wide range of cognitive and noncognitive skills such as fluid intelligence, math, reading, the inhibition of pre-potent impulses or more general self-regulation abilities. Because these abilities substantially affect individuals'...

Working memory capacity is thought to play an important role for a wide range of cognitive and non-cognitive skills such as fluid intelligence, math, reading, the inhibition of pre-potent impulses or more general self-regulation abilities. Because these abilities substantially affect...