Projects from Prof. Dr. Hendrik Schmitz
Was beeinflusst kognitive F?higkeiten, Gesundheit und Mortalit?t ?lterer Menschen
Cognitive abilities decline with age. This decline has considerable implications for human interactions, economic choices, and the quality of life. Cognitive abilities are also closely related to health, with a smooth transition from age-related general cognitive decline to cognition-related illness. Dementia, as an example of a cognitive decline ...
Duration: 10/2023 - 09/2026
Covid-19 als Beschleuniger sozialer Ungleichheit- kleinr?umige Analysen mit deutschen Nachbarschaftsdaten
In this project we seek to understand the role of disadvantaged neighborhoods with low average socio-economic status of their inhabitants. Individuals in low-income neighborhoods are often assumed to have limited possibilities to avoid contacting people infected with Sars-Cov2. This can be due to bad housing situations (e.g., more individuals live ...
Duration: 01/2022 - 12/2022
Qualit?t von Lehrern und deren Einfluss auf Lernergebnisse von Schülern – Evaluation der deutschen Bildungsexpansion als natürliches Experiment
Due to the considerable quantitative expansion of secondary education from the 1960s onward in Germany, the number of teachers at Real- and Gesamtschulen and at Gymnasien also more than quadrupled. The resulting immense demand for teachers likely had an impact on who could and would become teachers. This research project from the field of empirical ...
Duration: 07/2020 - 06/2024
Leibniz Science Campus Ruhr
Leibniz Science Campus Ruhr is a research collaboration focused on “Health care challenges in regions with declining and ageing populations”. Its aim is to analyse the causes and consequences of regional differences in health care, to derive policies to address the impending under-provision of health care and to evaluate selected measures to ...
Duration: 07/2020 - 06/2024
Sozio?konomische Determinanten des kognitiven Abbaus ?lterer Menschen
We analyze socio-economic determinants of cognitive abilities and cognitive decline of older individuals in Europe and the USA. In an increasingly complex world, cognitive abilities are more and more important for social participation. Complex decisions involve those on medical treatments, insurance coverage, or investments on financial markets, ...
Duration: 07/2020 - 06/2023
Der Einfluss des Hochschulstudiums auf monet?re und nicht-monet?re Gr??en in Deutschland unter Anwendung des Marginal Treatment Effects
We use NEPS (National Educational Panel Study) data to analyze the long-run effects of university education in West Germany between 1958 and 1990 on monetary and non-monetary outcomes in 2010. The outcomes are, on the one hand, income and labor market participation, and, on the other hand, health satisfaction and cognitive abilities (measured as ...
Duration: 04/2016 - 03/2018