Profil 
Joscha Legewie
2011 Guest of the Research Unit "Skill Formation and Labor Markets"
Joscha Legewie is PhD student at Columbia University in New York City. His current research examines the ways in which peers in the school context, and student culture affects educational outcomes, and particularly the gender gap in education. Methodologically, his research builds on rigorous causal inference based on natural or quasi-experimental research designs, and his focus on processes in the local environment informs our understanding of the mechanisms that explain the causal effect. His findings were published in the American Sociological Review, and other major journals.
Columbia website: http://www.columbia.edu/~jpl2136
Legewie, Joscha and Thomas DiPrete (2011): School Context and the Gender Gap in Educational Achievement. American Sociological Review (forthcoming)
Legewie, Joscha and Thomas DiPrete (2009): Family Determinants of the Changing Gender Gap in Educational Attainment: A Comparison of the U.S. and Germany. Journal of Applied Social Science Studies (Schmollers Jahrbuch) 129 (2): 1-13.
Legewie, Joscha (2008): Zum Einfluss der regionalen Arbeitslosigkeit auf Einstellungen zur sozialen Gerechtigkeit. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie 60 (2): 287-314.
Legewie, Joscha (2011): Terrorist Events, Immigrants and the Changing Salience of Symbolic Boundaries: A Natural Experiment. (under review)
Legewie, Joscha and Thomas DiPrete (2011): High School Environments, STEM Orientations, and the Gender Gap in Science and Engineering Degrees. (under review)
Legewie, Joscha (2011): Die Schätzung von Kausalen Effekten: Eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit der aktuellen Praxis am Beispiel der deutschen Bildungssoziologie. (under review)
