This study examines the gendered effects of early and sustained exposure to high-performing peers on female educational trajectories. Exploiting random allocation to classrooms within middle schools, we measure the effect of male and female high performers on girls' high school placement...

Rezension: Der erste Themenschwerpunkt dieses Readers umreisst in vier Beiträgen die Bedeutung von unterschiedlichen Einflussfaktoren bzw. Ereignissen für die Lebensläufe von Frauen verschiedener Geburtsjahrgänge und unter verschiedenen gesellschaftlichen Rahmenbedingungen (hier: BRD und...

While most studies on wealth inequality focus on the inequality between households, this paper examines the distribution of wealth within couples. For this purpose, we make use of unique individual level micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). In married and cohabiting...