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Press releaseVerbal or numerical? How report cards change parents' views of their children's school skills

A new study by BiB shows that most parents overestimate their children's school skills. Written assessments in report cards have little effect on this, whereas grades have a stronger impact on parents.

Journal ArticlesÜbersterblichkeit in Deutschland 2020

Regionale Unterschiede nach Alter, Geschlecht, Monat und Todesursachen

Mühlichen, Michael (2023)

Bevölkerungsforschung Aktuell 5/2023: 3–9

URN: urn:nbn:de:bib-bfa0520236

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, only few studies on excess mortality have considered both regional and cause-of-death variation. Germany is particularly interesting in this context because it was hit very differently by the pandemic across regions. To gain more insights into the potential causes of the spatial variation in excess mortality, we conducted a detailed regional analysis of mortality by age, sex, month and cause of death.