The third CIDER cohort (2019-2023) was funded by the Leibniz Education Research Network (LERN) and the Jacobs Foundation (grant number: 2011-963), with additional funding provided by the ten participating LERN Institutes. Below, all CIDER III Fellows are listed with institutional affiliation and research interests, grouped by academic disciplines. Additionally, you find an overview of all CIDER III Micro Groups and a list of the participating Leibniz Institutes and their representatives in the CIDER Steering Committee below.
| Name and Institution | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Bach, Maximilian CIDER Fellow from 2019-2021 | Inequality and education Skill formation Design of educational systems |
| Demel, Simona ISEAK CIDER Fellow from 2019-2020 | Empathy Gender differences in self-efficacy and competitiveness |
| Hermes, Henning Ludwig Erhard ifo Center for Social Market Economy and Institutional Economics | Economics of education Behavioral economics Economics of skill formation Development of skills and preferences in childhood and adolescence Inequalities in educational opportunities Early childhood education and care |
Hübener, Mathias Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB) | Economics of human capital formation, Reconciliation of work and family life, and its effects on parents and children Educational inequality in health Intergenerational effects of education Policy impact evaluation of education, family and health-related policies Parental leave G8-high school reform abolitions of day care fees |
| Quis, Johanna Sophie University of Hannover | Health Economics Education Economics Interplay between (mental) health and education (Non-)Cognitive skill formation Self-regulation in children Impact of institutional factors on individual outcomes |
| Sauer, Petra University of Fribourg | Educational & economic inequalities Political economy of education & inequality labour market segmentation & job quality Welfare state analysis Comparative research |
| Werner, Katharina ifo Center for the Economics of Education | Cognitive and non-cognitive skills Education aspirations Inequality in education Information acquisition Program evaluation |
| Name and Institution | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Civitillo, Sauro Utrecht University | Effects of teacher-based ethnic discrimination on student academic outcomes and well-being Teacher beliefs about cultural diversity in education Culturally responsive practices and teaching for social justice School and classroom diversity climate School adjustment of newly arrived migrants and refugee students Open science |
| Daniel, Annabell LMU Munich | Educational inequality Higher education School-to-work transitions Interventions in educational settings Factorial survey |
| de Moll, Frederick University of Bielefeld | Early childhood education and care Parenting strategies Educational inequality Family life and socialisation Non-cognitive dispositions |
| Linberg, Anja DJI – German Youth Institute CIDER Fellow from 2019-2022 | Early childhood education and care Structure and conditions of quality of home and institutional early childhood learning environments (Differential) effects of educational processes Impact of interaction quality in early childcare on mathematical development |
| Nusser, Lena Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories | Special educational needs Competence development Inclusive education Teaching practices in heterogeneous classrooms |
| Schmidt, Fabian University of Hildesheim | Students’ academic perseverance (grit, self-control) (Non-)Cognitive factors in education Habit formation and measurement Early childhood reading measurement and development Educational inequalities (social class, gender, migratory status) |
| Name and Institution | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Weiner, Jessica University of Basel | Bi-/Multilingualism Language & cognitive skills development in young children with and without migration background Socio-emotional development Early childhood education |
| Daumiller, Martin University of Augsburg | Motivation and fostering of motivation in educational settings Goals and Achievement Goal Theory Academic dishonesty Experiences, behaviors, and performance of university scholars Learning with digital media in the tertiary sector |
| Heppt, Birgit Center for Research on Education and School Development (IFS), TU Dortmund University | Assessment, support and development of (academic) language skills Language support across the curriculum Immigration-related disparities in students’ academic (language) achievement Determinants and effects of civic education and democratic school climate Survey methodology (e.g., effects of incentives, variations of the books-at-home-index) |
| Hübner, Nicolas University of Tübingen | Educational effectiveness and school improvement Implementation and effects of educational policy reforms Quantitative methods Students’ subject specific self-concepts and interests Teacher professional development Curriculum research |
| Meyer, Jennifer IPN – Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education | The interplay of cognitive and noncognitive predictors of school achievement Motivation in school contexts The assessment of English as foreign language skills |
| Miyamoto, Ai University of Freiburg | Fluid and crystallized intelligence Intrinsic motivation and self-concept Personality (Big Five) Academic achievement and school success Measurement invariance Latent model approach |
| Schwarzenthal, Miriam University of Wuppertal | Intercultural competence and intergroup attitudes among adolescents Adolescents’ understanding of social inequalities (critical consciousness) Adolescents’ civic engagement Classroom cultural diversity climate/Diversity ideologies Ethnic and national identity exploration Intercultural and interethnic friendships Stereotype threat and self-affirmation interventions in educational contexts |
| Steinmann, Isa Oslo Metropolitain University | Educational effectiveness research Student achievement and educational inequality outcomes International comparative research |
| Wolff, Fabian Bielefeld University | Academic self-concept development (especially by social, temporal, and dimensional comparison processes) Competence and personality development (especially in the context of educational stays abroad) Digitalization of learning environments (especially application of telepresence robots in higher education) |
| Name and Institution | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Gruijters, Rob University of Bristol | Educational inequality and school segregation in the global South Private schools Life course trajectories and economic inequality Quantitative methods |
| Menze, Laura Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health | Sociology of education and labor markets Returns to education Vocational training, occupations and social inequality School-to-work transitions Transitions of students with special educational needs Survey methodology |
| Olczyk, Melanie Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg | Social and ethnic educational inequality (patterns and causes) Social networks and social capital Segregation International comparisons Quantitative research methods |
| Passaretta, Giampiero Pompeu Fabra University | Achievement inequality Cognitive and non-cognitive skills Inequality in cognitive development Gender gap in learning Causal designs Comparative research |
| Raabe, Isabel University of Zurich | Social inequality and social mobility Social networks and social processes Sociology of education School contexts Gender and ethnicity |
| Scharf, Jan DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education | Sociology of education and educational inequality Primary and secondary effects of social origin School contexts, values of education and school alienation Migration and youth studies |
| Schwabe, Ulrike German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW) CIDER Fellow from 2019 to 2021 | Research in social stratification Sociology of education Sociology of labour markets Empirical higher education research (Quantitative) Methods in social sciences International comparisons Competence modelling and measurement |
| Weßling, Katarina Maastricht University, ROA, Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) | Educational and labour market inequality over the life course School-to-work transitions Spatial and institutional context effects Quantitative methods, especially: spatial and multilevel modeling |
The Psychology of Poverty: Can Non-Cognitive Skills Explain Why Poor Children Learn Less in School?
Fellows:
Gruijters, Rob (Sociology)
Hübner, Nicolas (Psychology)
Raabe, Isabell (Psychology)
Educational Values / Motivations as Antecedents of Educational Outcomes
Fellows:
Daumüller, Martin (Psychology)
Hübner, Nicolas (Psychology)
Meyer, Jennifer (Psychology)
Scharf, Jan (Sociology)
Investigating the sources of teacher intercultural self-efficacy: A latent three-level study using TALIS 2018
Fellows:
Civitillo, Sauro (Education Science)
Daumiller, Martin (Psychology)
Schwarzenthal, Miriam (Psychology)
Examining the origin of teacher stereotypes and their effects on teacher judgments: the role of personal and contextual conditions
Fellows:
Buehler, Jessica (Psychology)
Civitillo, Sauro (Education Science)
Heppt, Birgit (Psychology)
Linberg, Anja (Education Science)
Olczyk, Melanie (Sociology)
Lorenz, Georg (Sociology)
Number of books at home as an indicator of social origin: in-depth analyses based on different operationalizations and informants
Fellows:
Heppt, Birgit (Psychology)
Olczyk, Melanie (Sociology)
Volodina, Anna (University of Bamberg) (Psychology)
Educational development / Longitudinal analysis of the impact of conscientiousness on educational outcomes
Fellows:
Miyamoto, Ai (Psychology)
Schmidt, Fabian (Education Science)
Werner, Katharina (Economics)
Grit, Growth Mindset, and Intelligence: What Works for Educational Success?
Fellows:
Wolff, Fabian (Psychology)
Schmidt, Fabian (Education Science)
Strategic knowledge and social inequalities at the first transition into secondary education in Germany
Fellows:
Olczyk, Melanie (Sociology)
Daniel, Annabell (Education Science)
Bach, Maximilian (Economics)
Werner, Katharina (Economics)
The importance of educational contexts for students’ higher education enrollment. Are there effects of a college-going culture and who benefits most of it?
Fellows:
Daniel, Annabell (Education Science)
Daumiller, Martin (Psychology)
de Moll, Frederick (Education Science)
Hübner, Nicolas (Psychology)
Scharf, Jan (Sociology)
Wolff, Fabian (Psychology)
Educational decisions under uncertainty: New inequalities during the pandemic?
Fellows:
Daniel, Annabell (Education Science)
Scharf, Jan (Sociology)
Gender inequality in graduates’ employment prospects
Fellows:
Passaretta, Giampiero (Sociology)
Sauer, Petra (Economics)
Schwabe, Ulrike (Sociology)
Wesseling, Katharina (Sociology)
Non-cognitive what? An interdisciplinary approach to explore communalities and differences in psychology, sociology, and economics research
Fellows:
Quis, Johanna (Economics)
de Moll, Frederick (Education Science)
Schmidt, Fabian (Education Science)
Who gets better grades? An analysis on gender gaps and class composition in England, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden
Fellows:
Raabe, Isabell (Sociology)
Steinmann, Isa (Psychology)
Childcare Expansion, Staff Structure, and the Stability of Care Environments
Fellows:
Hübener, Mathias (Economics)
Hermes, Henning (Economics)
Linberg, Anja (Education Science)
Subjective well-being in early adulthood–Long-term effects of inclusive vs. segregated education for students with special educational needs
Fellows:
Menze, Laura (Sociology)
Nusser, Lena (Education Science)
Blanck, Jonna (FU Berlin) (Sociology)
Critical reflection of social inequity and meritocratic beliefs among primary school children and parents: Relations with children’s school adjustment and parental support of equitable access to education
Fellows:
Schwarzenthal, Miriam (Psychology)
de Moll, Frederick (Education Sciences)
Prof. Dr. Cordula Artelt
Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi)
Prof. Dr. Andreas Hadjar
University of Luxembourg
Prof. Dr. Monika Jungbauer-Gans
German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW)
Prof. Dr. Olaf Köller
Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education (IPN)
PD Dr. Friedhelm Pfeiffer
ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research
Prof. Dr. Florian Schmiedek – Head of CIDER III
DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education
Prof. Dr. Heike Solga
WZB – Berlin Social Science Center
Prof. Dr. C. Katharina Spieß
German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) (2019-2021)
Prof. Dr. Petra Stanat
Institute for Educational Quality Improvement (IQB)
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Trautwein
Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology
