Funding & Projects
Third-party funded projects
1. The German Labor Market and Social Trust (postdoc sholarship by the Daimler and Benz foundation)
Research interests:
Impact of unemployment on social trust.
Minimum wage and social trust.
Methods & Data:
Multi-wave survey (PASS data)
DiD analyses
FE analyses
Total funding: 40,000 Euro.
Project period: 1.3.2024 to 31.4.2026.
2. COVID-19 and societal polarization - In depth analyses on well-being and social trust for vulnarable groups (funded by the Hans-Böckler-Stiftung)
Research interests:
Long-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on well-being and social trust.
Does COVID-19 increase or decrease social inequalities in well-being and social trust?
Methods & Data:
Multi-wave survey (PASS data)
DiD analyses
FE analyses
Cooperation partner: Dr. Matthias Collischon (IAB).
Total funding: 174,000 Euro.
Project period: 1.6.2023 to 30.5.2025.
3. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on students’ transition from high school to post-secondary education (funded by the DFG; Project number 470280514)
Research interests:
1. How do educational expectations and decisions of high school students with different social backgrounds change during the COVID-19 pandemic?
2. Does the Covid-19 pandemic induced parental labour market insecurity affect educational expectations and educational decisions of high school students?
3. Can educational support policies buffer the effect of high school student’s insecurity on educational expectations during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Methods & Data:
Multi-wave survey
Register Data
Factorial survey
Cooperation partner: Prof. Dr. Malte Sandner (Nuremberg Tech, IAB).
Total funding: 104,900 Euro.
Project period: 1.1.2022 bis 1.6.2023.
4. COVID-19 and Social Inequality in Well-being (funded by the ECSR Thematic Conference Grant of the Year 2023)
Cooperation partners: Dr. Matthias Collischon (IAB) and Dr. Jacqueline Kroh (LIfBI).
Total funding: 5,000 Euro.
Link to conference homepage: https://www.lifbi.de/ECSR-Thematic-Conference
Projects funded by the Federal Employment Agency
1. BerO-Study together with Silke Anger, Sarah Bernhard, Hans Dietrich, Adrian Lerche, Malte Sandner, Carina Toussaint
Research interests:
The Effect of Student Counseling: Evaluation of a German-Wide School Policy
Educational decision making
Long-term consequences of educational decisions
Methods & Data:
RCT
Multi-wave survey
Register Data
More information here: https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/4587
Links to project related publications:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11150-022-09623-9
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101054
https://doi.org/10.1080/14616696.2020.1826556
http://doku.iab.de/kurzber/2021/kb2021-19.pdf
2. Youth unemployment and mental health together with Hans Dietrich
Research interest:
The role of mental health in the school-to-work transition
Data:
Multi-wave survey
Register Data
Links to project related publications:
https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v10i2.5103
Completed projects
1. Bogus self-employment in Germany together with Hans Dietrich (financed by the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs)
Research interest
Prevalence of bogus self-employment
Determinants of bogus self-employment
Association between legal status and earned income
Data
Multi-wave survey
Register Data
Links to project related publications:
https://iab.de/publikationen/publikation/?id=7313352