Search Results - "Wolter, Stefan"

Gender, Competitiveness, and Study Choices in High School: Evidence from Switzerland by Buser, Thomas, Peter, Noemi, Wolter, Stefan C

“…Willingness to compete has been found to predict individual and gender differences in educational choices and labor market outcomes. We provide further…”
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The Use of Bibliometrics to Measure Research Performance in Education Sciences by Diem, Andrea, Wolter, Stefan C.

“…This paper investigates the fitness-for-purpose and soundness of bibliometric parameters for measuring and elucidating the research performance of individual…”
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Things versus People: Gender Differences in Vocational Interests and in Occupational Preferences by Kuhn, Andreas, Wolter, Stefan C.

“…Occupational choices remain strongly segregated by gender, for reasons not yet fully understood. In this paper, we use detailed information on the cognitive…”
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Willingness to compete, gender and career choices along the whole ability distribution by Buser, Thomas, Peter, Noemi, Wolter, Stefan C.

“…We expand the scope of the literature on willingness to compete by asking how it varies with academic ability and whether and how it predicts career choices at…”
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Sitting next to a dropout: Academic success of students with more educated peers by Goller, Daniel, Diem, Andrea, Wolter, Stefan C.

“…•Increasingly dropouts from universities re-enroll at another tertiary institution.•We study the effect of these dropouts on the academic success of their new…”
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The strength of gender norms and gender‐stereotypical occupational aspirations among adolescents by Kuhn, Andreas, Wolter, Stefan C.

“…We empirically test the hypothesis that adolescents' occupational aspirations are more gender‐stereotypical if they live in a region where the societal norm…”
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Investigating the image deficit of vocational education and training: Occupational prestige ranking depending on the educational requirements and the skill content of occupations by Abrassart, Aurélien, Wolter, Stefan C

“…Vocational education and training (VET) often suffers from a lack of social standing among students and their families. Parents have been shown to discard…”
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Local norms describing the role of the state and the private provision of training by Kuhn, Andreas, Schweri, Jürg, Wolter, Stefan C.

“…Apprenticeship systems are essentially based on the voluntary participation of firms that provide, and usually also finance, training positions, often…”
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Knowing What’s Coming: Unpredictable Motion Causes More Motion Sickness by Kuiper, Ouren X., Bos, Jelte E., Schmidt, Eike A., Diels, Cyriel, Wolter, Stefan

“…Objective This study explores the role of anticipation in motion sickness. We compared three conditions varying in motion predictability and assessed the…”
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Rejecting education as the basis of the social prestige of occupations: the role of polarized political ideologies and parties in Switzerland by Abrassart, Aurélien, Wolter, Stefan C.

“…Because of an important consistency in the prestige ratings of occupations from respondents across various social groups, countries and over time, the roots of…”
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Improved Risk Stratification by Circulating Tumor Cell Counts in Pancreatic Cancer by Effenberger, Katharina E, Schroeder, Cornelia, Hanssen, Annkathrin, Wolter, Stefan, Eulenburg, Christine, Tachezy, Michael, Gebauer, Florian, Izbicki, Jacob R, Pantel, Klaus, Bockhorn, Maximilian

“…Pancreatic cancer is one of the most devastating diseases with a 5-year survival rate of 3% to 5%. Here, we investigated whether circulating tumor cells (CTC)…”
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Hiring costs of skilled workers and the supply of firm-provided training by Blatter, Marc, Muehlemann, Samuel, Schenker, Samuel, Wolter, Stefan C

“…This article analyses how the costs of hiring skilled workers from the external labour market affect a firm's supply of training. Using administrative survey…”
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“Against all odds” Does awareness of the risk of failure matter for educational choices? by Cattaneo, Maria A., Wolter, Stefan C.

“…Educational decisions are always made under uncertainty. This paper examines the effect of providing information about dropout risks on stated preferences for…”
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Does political orientation affect the choice of a university major? by Denzler, Stefan, Wolter, Stefan C.

“…Using data from a survey of all high-school graduates in a Swiss canton, we analyze the relationship between students' political orientation and their choice…”
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The more, the better?: The impact of instructional time on student performance by Cattaneo, Maria Alejandra, Oggenfuss, Chantal, Wolter, Stefan C

“…Building on earlier work that explored within-student variation in hours of instruction across school subjects, we investigate the impact of instruction time…”
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From dreams to reality: market forces and changes from occupational intention to occupational choice by Jaik, Katharina, Wolter, Stefan C.

“…We empirically investigate whether the relationship between the fraction of filled apprenticeships in a particular occupation in the past and the fraction of…”
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"Too shocked to search" the COVID-19 shutdowns' impact on the search for apprenticeships by Goller, Daniel, Wolter, Stefan C

“…Even though the recession in Switzerland triggered by COVID-19 ultimately remained without consequences for the apprenticeship market, significantly fewer…”
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Information provision and preferences for education spending: Evidence from representative survey experiments in three countries by Cattaneo, Maria, Lergetporer, Philipp, Schwerdt, Guido, Werner, Katharina, Woessmann, Ludger, Wolter, Stefan C.

“…Do citizens' preferences about education policies differ across industrialized countries? To gain comparative evidence on public preferences for education…”
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Are apprenticeships business cycle proof? by Lüthi, Samuel, Wolter, Stefan C

“…Although there is evidence that apprenticeship training can ease the transition of youth into the labour market and thereby alleviate youth unemployment, many…”
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Driving performance at lateral system limits during partially automated driving by Naujoks, Frederik, Purucker, Christian, Wiedemann, Katharina, Neukum, Alexandra, Wolter, Stefan, Steiger, Reid

“…•Drivers encountered lateral system limits of partially automated driving.•Variation of hands-off interval (10 vs. 120s) and distraction (with vs…”
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