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Example topics from recent semesters:

SS 2024

• Sexual Orientation and its Effects on Wages and Success in the German Laboar Market
• You are what you eat: Exploring the Relationship Between Dietary Choices and the Big Five Personality Traits
• Unpacking Wage Inequality: Distributional Effects of Germany´s Minimum Wage Reform

SS 2023

• The Effects of the Minimum Wage Introduction in Germany on Poverty: A Difference-in-Difference Approach

SS 2022

• The Impact of the Triple-Double on Winning in the NBA Regular Season
• The Selection of Style Characteristics Relevant fur hugoboss.com Net Sales: A Lasso Regression Approach
• The Impact of the Minimum Wage Introduction in Germany on Subjective Health Measures and Health-Related Outcomes
• An Analysis of NBA Team Performance based in Box-Score Statistics: A Fixed Effects Regression Approach

WS 2021/22

• An Analysis of NBA Team Performance based in Box-Score Statistics: A Fixed Effects Regression Approach

SS 2021

• Does a higher level of English proficiency lead to a higher degree of digitalisation?
• COVID-19 and Democracies: Did Democratic Countries Perform Worse in the Crisis?
• The Impact of the Rise in the National Minimum Wage on the Probability of Remaining Employed in South Korea

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

• Rising Return to Education in Germany – A Cohort-Based Approach
• Class Size and Student Achievement

WS 2015/16

• Myth or Reality - Does an Increasing Number of Immigrants Influence the Crime Rate in Germany?
• 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
• Fostering Fatherhood – How Parents`s Money Affects the Sharing of Child Car in Germany
• How powerful is wealth as a predictor of health in the case of Germany?
• 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
• Speed Limit Enforcement: A Means to an end, yet Pursuing the "Wrong" Objective?
• Intergenerational Unemployment Transmission in Germany
• Decomposition of the Native-Immigrant Wage Gap in Germany
• 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

• Decomposition of the Gender Pay Gap in Germany
• The Impact of the School Meals Program on Children´s Education in Southwestern Ethiopia
• The duration until giving birth to the first child in Germany and its determinants
• The effect of a migration background on unemployment duration in Germany
• College or Apprenticeship? – Educational Choices in West Germany

WS 2013/14

• Risky Asset Shares of German Households – A Model Comparison for Fractional Response Data
• Educational Mismatches in the German Labor Market: Possible Causes and Potential Wage Effects
• Evaluating the Adolescent Girl Employment Initiative in Nepal
• Consumption under Intertemporal and Interpersonal Comparisons: Evidence from U.S. Panel Data
• Determinants of Health Insurance Uptake in Rural Nigeria

SS 2013

• 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