Dr. Rebecca Wetter

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Rebecca Wetter
Martina Sander

Contact

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+49 30 25491 385
rebecca.wetter [at] wzb.eu
Reichpietschufer 50
D-10785 Berlin
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D225
Research Fellow of the Research Department
Skill Formation and Labor Markets

CV

10/2024

Successful defence of dissertation titled "The formation of inequality beliefs and their consequences for educational inequality: Evidence from applicants to medical school in Germany" (summa cum laude).

03 2023

Research Stay at the London School of Economics and Political Science

since 03/2020

Research fellow in the project „Meritocratic beliefs, motivated reasoning and goal dis-/engagement: University admission as natural experiment“

08/2018 - 10/2019

Student assistant at WZB in the President's Project Group

04/2018 - 10/2019

M.A. Sociology- European Societies at FU Berlin, Master's thesis: "The effect of intercultural contact on the attitude towards migration: The role of individual value orientations"

10/2017 - 02/2018

M.A. Sociology in European Context at Charles University in Prague

12/2015 - 12/2017

Student assistant at the institute of sociology at Düsseldorf University

10/2014 - 08/2017

B.A. Social Sciences (Media, Politics, Society) at Düsseldorf University

Selected Publications

Wzbaktiv
2023
Finger, Claudia/Wetter, Rebecca/Solga, Heike (2023): "Zugang zu medizinischen und pharmazeutischen Studiengängen in Deutschland: Bewerber*innenbefragung (Wintersemester 2018/19). Version 1.0.0.". 1.0.0. Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), online: https://dx.doi.org/10.7802/2515. (veröffentlicht).
Li, Jianghong/ Giebler, Heiko/ Wetter, Rebecca/ Kenyon Lair, Hannah/ Ellingwood, Julia (2023): "Unequal Electoral Participation. The Negative Effects of Long Work Hours and Unsociable Work Schedules in Europe". In: European Journal of Politics and Gender, Vol. 6, No. 1, S. 92-113. (vorab online publiziert 19.9.2022)
Wetter, Rebecca/Finger, Claudia (2023): "Do Experiences of Success and Failure Influence Beliefs about Inequality? Evidence from Selective University Admission". In: Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 86, No. 2, S. 170-194. (vorab online publiziert 07.04.2023)
Wetter, Rebecca/Li, Jianghong/Giebler, Heiko/Ellingwood, Julia (2023): "Keine Zeit zu wählen. Lange und sozial unverträgliche Arbeitszeiten beeinträchtigen die politische Teilhabe". In: WZB-Mitteilungen, H. 1=Nr. 179, S. 37-40.
2022
Wetter, Rebecca/Finger, Claudia (2022): "Wie Ungleichheit verstanden wird. Eigene Erfahrungen beeinflussen, ob junge Erwachsene an Erfolg durch Anstrengung oder an den Zufall glauben /". In: WZB-Mitteilungen, H. 3=Nr. 177, S. 18-21.
Wetter, Rebecca/Schulz, Benjamin (2022): "Manche sind gleicher. Ethnische Grenzen und die Offenheit gegenüber Flüchtlingsgruppen in Europa". In: Krieg in Europa - Ursachen und Folgen/War in Europe - Causes and Consequences, 20.07.2022.
Projects

Meritocratic beliefs, motivated reasoning and goal dis-/engagement: University admissions as a natural experiment