Eine aktuelle RWI-Studie zeigt: Mädchen und Jungen haben in der neunten Klasse ähnlich hohe digitale Kompetenzen. Allerdings verfolgen Mädchen - anders als Jungen - tendenziell nur dann eine MINT-Karriere, wenn ihre digitalen Kompetenzen überdurchschnittlich stark ausgeprägt sind. Weil der...

The education system is crucial for individual and social development and a country's competitiveness. Current studies show a decline in the quality of education and growing inequality. Challenges such as a shortages of skilled labour and high workloads for teachers, combined with inadequate...

Evidence-based education policy needs comprehensive data. Education economists of the Verein für Socialpolitik call for the implementation of a longitudinal education register in Germany to understand the complex interrelationships of education systems. The education register should cover all...

Die Stellungnahme der Arbeitsgruppe "Bildungsdaten" zeigt die gravierenden Datenmängel im Bereich der Verfügbarkeit und Verknüpfbarkeit von Bildungsdaten in Deutschland auf. Sie fordert die Umsetzung eines Bildungsverlaufsregisters über alle Stufen formaler Bildung sowie den regelhaften...

This paper analyzes the impact of college students’ coworker networks formed during student jobs on their labor market outcomes after graduation. For our analysis, we use novel data that links students’ administrative university records with their pre- and post-graduation employment registry...

The dataset RWI-UNI-SUBJECTS provides comprehensive information on the universe of academic subjects offered by the universe of higher education institutions across Germany between 1971 and 1996. RWI-UNI-SUBJECTS is based on tables extracted from paper-based guides on "Study and Career Choice''...

This paper analyzes the impact of college students' coworker networks formed during student jobs on their labor market outcomes after graduation. For our analysis, we use novel data that links students' administrative university records with their pre- and post-graduation employment registry...

This study investigates the impact of a low-cost, color-coded scale intervention designed to inform university students about the expected workload for a course, with the aim of improving students’ academic performance and learning behaviors. An initial intervention took place at the beginning...