What Is the Young Generation Researching?

Topic/title of my dissertation:
Why Don't Poor Families Move? A Spatial Equilibrium Analysis of Parental Decisions with Social Learning

What it’s about:
Social segregation can explain why poor families underinvest in children’s education. Since we learn by observing people around us, low-income environments generate pessimism about chances of success, which hinders social mobility across generations.

Topic/title of my dissertation:
Hate Begets Hate. Exploring „Islamist“ Speech Online and Its Effect on Radicalization.

What it’s about:
In my thesis, I explore the question how Dissertation gehe ich der Frage nach how widespread radical content is among social media users and what effect its consumption has on political attitudes.

Topic/title of my dissertation:
No „nationalist superhero“. Identity and Politics in German Superhero Comics. (working title)

What it’s about:
Superheroes do not only exist in America—since the 1980s, these figures have also appeared in comics in the German language. I examine these narratives with regard to concepts of identity and political discourses.

Topic/title of my dissertation:
Broadcasting Change: India‘s Community Radio Policy and Women‘s Empowerment

What it’s about:
I examine the extent to which media can be used to empower women. For this purpose, I analyze 280 radios operated by universities and NGOs in India.

Topic/title of my dissertation:
Video Analysis in Parliamentary Research: Methodology and Application

What it’s about:
I use artificial intelligence to analyze video recordings of parliamentary debates. For example, I investigate when parliamentarians are attentive in the plenary and when they are not.

Topic/title of my dissertation:
Genomic Screening Programs for Newborns

What it’s about:
Genome analyses in the context of newborn screening would open up a great deal of information about the individual. They are consequently associated with numerous medical, but also ethical and legal challenges. I will address the legal problems of introducing genomic newborn screening.

Topic/title of my dissertation:
The Corporate Decision to Cooperate with Investigative Authorities

What it’s about:
The thesis examines the duties of board members after discovering violations of the law. Do violations of the law have to be disclosed to investigating authorities or is the decision to cooperate a discretionary decision of the executive board?

Topic/title of my dissertation:
Subsidy Fraud in the Event of Violations of Cross-Compliance Requirements—Illustrated Using the Example of Animal Welfare Regulations

What it’s about:
Considering questions of European law, the paper examines whether farmers are liable to prosecution by providing incorrect information about these specifications in subsidy applications if they already know that, for example, the husbandry of their calves does not comply with the specifications.

Topic/title of my dissertation:
„Die Neunzehnte“. A Street in Red Light. Mannheim's Bordello Alley in the 20th Century

What it’s about:
The Mannheim prostitution district “Lupinenstrasse”, also called „Die Neunzehnte”, can now look back on 120 years of its existence. My intention is to explore its fascinating history.

Topic/title of my dissertation:
Essays on Financial and Non-Financial Transparency Regulation

What it’s about:
I examine distributional effects of transparency regulations. My results show that transparency regulations mainly help large companies at the expense of small companies.

Topic/title of my dissertation:
Antecedents and Consequences of Self-Avatar Design. Three Essays on Beautification in Human-Avatar Interactions

What it’s about:
I investigate how self-avatar appearance can be beautified towards our ideal-self, and how this influences identification with the self-avatar and behaviour using the self-avatar.

Topic/title of my dissertation:
Friends with Drugs: The Role of Social Networks in the Opioid Epidemic

What it’s about:
We show that the opioid crisis in the United States spreads through social networks. The results clearly demonstrate that physically non-contagious diseases can be socially infectious.

Topic/title of my dissertation:
What Do Racists Google? New Opportunities for Attitudes Research by Combining Google Trends and Survey Data

What it’s about:
What does it say about society what people Google, and how can we use data from Google searches to study attitudes like racism?

Topic/title of my dissertation:
Cue Learning for Metamemory Judgments

What it’s about:
I investigate how people learn information that help them predict how well they will remember things in the future.

Topic/title of my dissertation:
When Is Hindsight Bias a By-Product of Adaptive Knowledge Updating?

What it’s about:
Looking back, we often think we have always known things. Traditionally, this hindsight bias was considered an unreasonable delusion. However, adaptive knowledge updating processes are actually a fundamental basis for it.