Jungen hinken in der Schule den Mädchen hinterher. Männliche Lehrkräfte wirken sich nicht positiv auf den Bildungserfolg von Jungen aus. Der pauschale Ruf nach mehr Männern im Lehramt kann sogar nachteilige Folgen für die Kompetenzentwicklung von Jungen und Mädchen haben.

Seit über sechzig Jahren haben Mädchen bessere Schulnoten als Jungen. Seit etwa zwanzig Jahren erwerben Mädchen deutlich häufiger das Abitur als Jungen. Schulischer Erfolg wird maßgeblich von gesellschaftlichen Bildern geprägt.

Physical inactivity and sedentary behaviours have been rising throughout the OECD in recent decades. Lack of physical activity and excessive sedentary behaviour are well-known risk factors for non-communicable diseases, such as heart diseases, stroke, diabetes, and osteoporosis. As such,...

Most research on the relationship between health and socioeconomic status (SES) controls for changing age or investigates the relationship for a particular age range. This paper, however, examines changes in the relationship across ages, as well as controls for potential endogeneity in the...

Most research on the relationship between health and socioeconomic status (SES) controls for changing age or investigates the relationship for a particular age range. This paper, however, examines changes in the relationship across ages, as well as controls for potential endogeneity in the...

There is a long tradition of psychologists finding small income effects on life satisfaction (or happiness). Yet the issue of income endogeneity in life satisfaction equations has rarely been addressed. This paper aims to do just that. Instrumenting for income and allowing for unobserved...

Closely following recent innovations in the literature on the multidimensional measurement of poverty, this paper provides similar measures for the top of the distribution using a dual cutoff method to identify individuals, who can be considered as rich in a multidimensional setting. We use this...

After the introduction in Section 2, we very briefly sketch out current theoretical and empirical developments in the social sciences. In our view, they all point in the same direction: toward the acute and increasing need for multidisciplinary longitudinal data covering a wide range of living...