Birgit Becker
social science
Frankfurt University
Germany
Biography
Birgit Becker is a professor of sociology with an emphasis on empirical education at the Institute of Sociology at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and a member of the Center for Individual Development and Adaptive Education of Children at Risk (IDeA) External Fellow at the Mannheim Center for European Social Research (MZES). Birgit Becker studied social sciences at the University of Mannheim from 1998 to 2003 (graduated as a social scientist in 2003)
Research Interest
Her research interests are educational equality and educational decisions, early childhood and socialization, as well as migration and integration.
Publications
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Hasselhorn, M., Andresen, S., Becker, B., Betz, T., Leuzinger-Bohleber, M., & Schmid, J. (2014). Children at Risk of Poor Educational Outcomes: Theoretical Concepts and Empirical Results. Child Indicators Research, 7(4), 695-697.
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Hasselhorn, M., Andresen, S., Becker, B., Betz, T., Leuzinger-Bohleber, M., & Schmid, J. (2015). Children at risk of poor educational outcomes: In search of a transdisciplinary theoretical framework. Child Indicators Research, 8(2), 425-438.
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Becker, B., Boldin, E., & Klein, O. (2016). Formal and informal early education of Turkish-origin children in Germany. Early Child Development and Care, 186(1), 173-189.
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Tuppat, J., Becker, B., & Lange, M. (2016). The risk of delayed school entry in relation to migration background in different institutional settings. Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft, 19(4), 745-764.
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Becker, B., & Schober, P. S. (2017). Not Just Any Child Care Center? Social and Ethnic Disparities in the Use of Early Education Institutions With a Beneficial Learning Environment. Early Education and Development, 1-24.
