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Dr

Sarah Dahmann

Research Fellow
Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
mental health
mental disorders
education
educational status
humans
germany
compulsory schooling reform
returns to education
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Dr

Sarah Dahmann

 
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Intergenerational Disadvantage: Causes, Pathways, and Consequences

2020 - 2023
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Research Grant

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 3 most recent scholarly works by Sarah Dahmann.

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Depression, Risk Preferences and Risk-taking Behavior

Deborah A Cobb-Clark, Sarah C Dahmann, Nathan Kettlewell

Journal article  |  2021  |  The Journal of Human Resources

Depression affects the way that people process information and make decisions, including those involving risk and uncertainty. Our..

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No evidence for a protective effect of education on mental health

Sarah C Dahmann, Daniel D Schnitzlein

Journal article  |  2019  |  Social Science & Medicine

This paper analyzes whether education has a protective effect on mental health. To estimate causal effects, we employ an instrumen..

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How does education improve cognitive skills? Instructional time versus timing of instruction

Sarah C Dahmann

Journal article  |  2017  |  Labour Economics

This paper investigates two mechanisms through which education may affect cognitive skills in adolescence, exploiting a school ref..

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Applied Economics
Microeconomics
Public Health (excl. Specific Population Health)

Credentials

Positions

Research Fellow

Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research

Research Affiliate

Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Fellow

ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course

Education

MSc in Econometrics

Maastricht University

BSc in Econometrics

Maastricht University

PhD in Economics

Free University of Berlin