Rebecca Wetterمشاهده پروفایل
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Rebecca Wetter is a Research Fellow at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (Berlin Social Science Center) in the Skill Formation and Labor Markets department. She successfully defended her dissertation titled "The formation of inequality beliefs and their consequences for educational inequality: Evidence from applicants to medical school in Germany" with the highest distinction (summa cum laude) in October 2024. Education: M.A. in Sociology - European Societies at Freie Universität Berlin (2018-2019) M.A. in Sociology in European Context at Charles University in Prague (2017-2018) B.A. in Social Sciences (Media, Politics, Society) at Düsseldorf University (2014-2017) Her research focuses on inequality beliefs , meritocracy , and their impacts on educational stratification , political participation , and migration attitudes . She uses natural experiments, particularly university admission processes, to study how success and failure experiences shape social perceptions. Her work also examines the effects of long work hours on democratic engagement and ethnic boundary formation in European contexts. Recent publications analyze: (1) medical/pharmacy school admission inequality in Germany; (2) electoral participation barriers due to unsociable work schedules in Europe; (3) meritocratic belief formation; (4) migration attitudes influenced by intercultural contact. Keywords span educational sociology, social inequality, political science, and migration studies. Scientific Awards: Summa cum laude distinction for dissertation (2024) She has held research positions at the London School of Economics and Political Science (2023) and previously worked as a student assistant at WZB and Düsseldorf University's sociology institute.











