Previous Projects

Private Education in Germany

Status: completed
Duration: since 2015
Researchers:  Pia K?nig, Steffen Schindler
Funding:  Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences (BAGSS)


Studying Successfully

Status: completed
Duration: 2014-2017
Researchers:  Steffen Schindler, Friederike Schlücker
Funding:  Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences (BAGSS)


Long-term Consequences of Unequal Educational Decisions (working title)

Status: completed
Duration: since 2013
Researchers: Steffen Schindler, Markus L?rz
Funding: University of Bamberg, University of Hanover


Horizontal Differentiation in European Higher Education and Labour Market Outcomes

Status: completed
Duration: 2012-2014
Researchers: Carlo Barone, David Reimer, Steffen Schindler
Funding: University of Bamberg, Fritz Thyssen Foundation (2012)


Educational Expansion and the Differentiation of Upper Secondary Degrees. Mechanisms of Social Selectivitiy in View of the Transition to Higher Education

(conducted at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), University of Mannheim)

For more information, you can look here.

Status: completed
Duration: 2009-2012
Participating Researchers: Steffen Schindler
Support: BMBF


Social Selectivity in Tertiary Education and Labour Market and Stratification Outcomes

(conducted at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), University of Mannheim)

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Status: completed
Duration: 2003-2012
Participating Researchers: Carlo Barone, Markus Klein, Walter Müller, Martin Neugebauer, David Reimer, Steffen Schindler
Support: DFG, MZES


Problems of an Education-Based Meritocracy: Primary and Secondary Effects

(conducted at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), University of Mannheim)

Status: completed
Duration: 2007-2012
Participating Researchers: Charlotte Büchner, Dalit Contini, Robert Erikson, Anders Holm, Mathieu Ichou, Mads Meier Jaeger, Jan O. Jonsson, Martin Neugebauer, David Reimer, Frida Rudolphi, Andrea Scagni, Steffen Schindler, Volker Stocké, Louis-André Vallet, Rolf van der Velden
Support: EU (Equalsoc)


Differentiation in Higher Education and its Consequences for Social Inequality

(conducted at t