Example topics from past semesters
WS 2020/21
- Individual and environmental characteristics related to gender differences in employment on the Ghanaian labour market
- Wealth distributions in the EU: A comparative analysis of wealth inequality using the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) of the ECB
- Evaluating the contribution of high temperatures to child wasting in India and Bangladesh
SS 2020
- "How does parental income affect secondary school track choice? A Sibling Fixed Effects Analysis"
- "Re-evaluating RCTs with nightlights - an example from biometric smartcards in India"
WS 2019/20
- The German Minimum Wage and Hourly Wages - Methodological Trial and Error
- The Wage Gap of Immigrants in the German Labour Market
- Did the Family Benefit Dispute affect Election Outcomes in Bavaria?
- Analysis of the Internal East-West Migration in Germany
WS 2018/19
- The Effects of the German Minimum Wage Reform on Job Satisfaction of Its Beneficiaries
SS 2018
- Returns to Education - The Impact of Vocational Training Preceding a University Degree
- The Effect of Labor Market Entry on Life Satisfaction
WS 2017/18
- The Impact of Development Aid on the Real Effective Exchange Rate in Receiving Countries
- The Impact of Double Taxation Treaties on Foreign Direct Investment to Developing Countries
SS 2017
- A Comparison of Female Employment Patterns in East and West Germany after Reunification
- How Does Marriage Affect the Wages of Men and Women in West Germany? Evidence From the Socio-Economic Panel Between 1985 and 2012
- The Mental Health Effect of Overeducation
- The Motherhood Wage Penalty and the Problem of Self-Selection
- The determinants of entrepreneurship in Germany: a micro-level analysis
WS 2016/17
- The Motherhood Wage Penalty in Germany
- Long-term unemployed single parents: who they are and what influences their chance to find a job?
- Inequality aversion across income groups in Germany
- Can foreign direct investment accelerate growth? A panel data approach.
- Income Inequality and Economic Growth: Evidence from Panel Data in Developed Countries
- Public Attention and Development Aid Exploring a new instrument
- Can external Public Debt explain the Ineffectiveness of Development Aid
- Assessing Intergenerational Income Mobility in Germany
- What are possible determinants of female labour supply and to what extent do they shape a woman´s decision to actively participate in the labour market?
- Foreign Direct Investment and Affluence: Does Education matter?
SS 2016
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Rising Return to Education in Germany – A Cohort-Based Approach
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Class Size and Student Achievement
WS 2015/16
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Myth or Reality - Does an Increasing Number of Immigrants Influence the Crime Rate in Germany?
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Racial Inequalities – The Impact of being Hispanic on economic success in the United States
SS 2015
- Educational Attainment and Transmission in Germany: A Comparison between Native Germans and German-Born Migrants
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Fostering Fatherhood – How Parents`s Money Affects the Sharing of Child Car in Germany
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How powerful is wealth as a predictor of health in the case of Germany?
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Impacts on the Income Distribution in Colombia betwenn 1993 - 2013
WS 2014/15
- Econometric Analysis of the Determinants of Political Indifference and Right-Wing Ideology
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Speed Limit Enforcement: A Means to an end, yet Pursuing the "Wrong" Objective?
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Intergenerational Unemployment Transmission in Germany
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Decomposition of the Native-Immigrant Wage Gap in Germany
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Do Immigrants Earn Less? A Quantile Regression Approach to Wages of Immigrants and Native Germans
- Analyzing the Gender Gap in Leadership Positons with the help of the Oaxaca-Blinder Decomposition
SS 2014
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Decomposition of the Gender Pay Gap in Germany
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The Impact of the School Meals Program on Children´s Education in Southwestern Ethiopia
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The duration until giving birth to the first child in Germany and its determinants
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The effect of a migration background on unemployment duration in Germany
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College or Apprenticeship? – Educational Choices in West Germany
WS 2013/14
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Risky Asset Shares of German Households – A Model Comparison for Fractional Response Data
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Educational Mismatches in the German Labor Market: Possible Causes and Potential Wage Effects
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Evaluating the Adolescent Girl Employment Initiative in Nepal
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Consumption under Intertemporal and Interpersonal Comparisons: Evidence from U.S. Panel Data
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Determinants of Health Insurance Uptake in Rural Nigeria
SS 2013
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Determinants of Outsourcing on the Establishment Level
WS 2012/13
- Evaluation of Direct Marketing Campaigns in the Banking Sector: An Application of Probit Model and Linear Discriminant Analysis
- A Multinomial Logit Model: The Effect of Unemployment on Individual Voting Behavior
- Compensating Wage Differentials: New Evidence from German Data
- Determinants to become a manager – differences between women and men
- Migrants and the Incidence of Unemployment: A Probit Approach
- 'University or Fachhochschule'? The decision between different institutions of tertiary education and its effect on the wage: An empirical analysis
- Determinants of Consumers' Channel Preferences: A Model for Explaining the Selection of Distribution Channels
SS 2012
- Instrumental variable estimation of the return to education
- Indirect and Direct Returns to Education in Germany
- A probit random-effects Model: Labor force participation of women
- The effects of private leverage in the European Monetary Union
WS 2011/12
- Popular Poverty Intensity Indices: Theory and International Evidence
- Decomposing Inequality Measures
- The Relation between Economic Situation and Civil War Onset: Addressing the Problem of Endogeneity
SS2010
- Discrete Choice Models An Overview