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International data show that areas with high socioeconomic status were the areas most affected by the first wave of the pandemic. Then Covid-19 reached less privileged areas and spread fiercely in these communities. The spread of the Spanish flu that gripped the world about a hundred years ago was ...

From 2017 until 2019, the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) has funded research projects at the University of Mannheim with 37.1 million euros. If the funding amount is compared to the number of professors and their subject profile, the University of Mannheim ranks ...

Prof. Volker Nocke, Ph.D., Professor of Microeconomics at the Mannheim Department of Economics since 2009, is one of the most internationally renowned scholars in his field. In recognition of his important contributions to Economics, he has now been elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society.

In a new study, an international team analyzes the connection between social class, psychological well-being and religion. They conclude that being religious may ease or even compensate for the psychological burden of poverty. In addition, the study suggests that, due to increasing secularization, a ...

Although the economic situation has considerably improved after the long lockdown in spring 2021, the situation in many sectors remains tight, as the company trend of the German Business Panel (GBP) at the University of Mannheim shows. The answers of more than 1,800 German companies from more than ...

The German Research Foundation (DFG) continues to fund linguistic projects of the Department of English Studies at the University of Mannheim. The DFG has also granted funding for additional projects in the field.