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Educational trajectories are complex and influenced by many factors, including origin, school system, or economic conditions. Finding out more about educational processes requires transdisciplinary cooperation. This is precisely what the College on Interdisciplinary Educational Research - CIDER, a new innovative program, is about.

With the research study titled "Leadership Skills in Germany", the WZB and the stiftung neue verantwortung aim to explore the current understanding of leadership amongst German elites. Leadership has become increasingly complex in the dynamic and interlinked world of the 21st century. Today's so-called multistakeholder society demands that elites engage in cross-sectoral and intergenerational thinking and acting.

The Online Dossier Education is an internet platform integrated into the bpb.de website that provides basic information about key players and institutions in the German education system and brings together debates, findings and insights from education research. 

This project studies what amounts of financial resources students have available, what funding mixes in terms of BAföG, loans, employment and parental support they draw on and how these funding mixes vary by socio-economic background. We then study how different funding sources affect the drop-out probability, progress towards degree, time-use, academic achievement and likelihood of graduating. In particular, we are interested in whether BAföG aid, loans and employment differ in their effects on student outcomes. We plan to use data from the NEPS. These data contain very detailed information about students’ financial resources and background.