We employ a psychometrically validated performance test to study economic competence among representative sample of 1,687 early secondary school students in Southwest Germany. The rich dataset allows us to study variation in economic competence across school types and observable student characteristics. Our results show that economic competence is significantly lower among female students, migrants, students with parents of low socio-economic status and those who do not attend the highest track school type. Additionally, quantile regression analyses suggest that the gender gap increases along the distribution of economic competence and that effects of parents with high socio-economic status are more pronounced above the median of the competence distribution.

我们采用经心理计量学验证的性能测试来研究德国西南部1,687名初中学生的代表性样本中的经济能力。丰富的数据集使我们能够研究不同学校类型和可观察的学生特征之间的经济能力差异。我们的结果表明，在女学生，移民，父母中社会经济地位较低的学生和未上过最高轨范学校的学生中，经济能力明显较低。此外，分位数回归分析表明，性别差距随着经济能力分布的增加而增加，具有较高社会经济地位的父母的影响在能力分布的中位数以上更为明显。