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Decisions to invest in human capital depend on people's time preferences. This paper shows that differences in patience are closely related to substantial subnational differences in educational achievement, leading to new perspectives on longstanding within-country disparities. We use social-media data – Facebook interests – to construct novel regional measures of patience within Italy and the United ...
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The Economic Journal
136 (2026), 673, S. 335–350
| Eric A Hanushek, Lavinia Kinne, Pietro Sancassani, Ludger Woessmann
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Optical document recognition has made great progress in recent years. However, large historical tables still pose substantial challenges because of poor scan quality, irregular layouts, and the sheer number of table cells. Table transcription tools perform well on small tables but struggle with large ones. Most publications report transcription quality on benchmark data sets. From a practical perspective, ...
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Applied Sciences
16 (2026), 14, 7327, 18 S.
| Luzian Uihlein, Norbert Fischer, Alexander Hartelt, Tobias Gebel, Frank Puppe
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Objectives Cumulative advantage is a central concept in life course research. Prior research has primarily focused on one outcome domain, overlooking the possibility that cumulative advantage could extend into other domains–what we refer to as diffusion of cumulative advantage. We build on and extend cumulative inequality theory to conceptualize diffusion and apply it to wealth and health, two domains ...
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The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences
81 (2026), 9, gbag115, 11 S.
| Anastasia Lam, Philipp M. Lersch
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We examine the additivity of expectations over different time intervals. For example, when asked about 10-year stock price growth, survey respondents report an expected change that is not equal to, but closer to zero than, the sum of their expectations over two shorter time intervals that cover the same 10 years. Such subadditivity, which we also find in expectations for other economic variables, is ...
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Management Science
72 (2026), 8, S. 6792-6805
| Peter Haan, Chen Sun, Uwe Sunde, Georg Weizsäcker
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To ensure security of supply in the power sector, many countries are considering capacity mechanisms. Simultaneously, the expansion of variable renewables increases the need for power sector flexibility, with promising options on the demand side. We analyze how a centralized capacity market and an advanced reliability reserve with a moderately high activation price affect demand-side flexibility investments ...
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iScience
29 (2026), 6, 116176, 15 S.
| Franziska Klaucke, Karsten Neuhoff, Alexander Roth, Wolf-Peter Schill, Leon Stolle
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While socioeconomic status (SES) and personality have both been identified as relevant predictors of academic achievement, little is known about their possible interplay in predicting school performance. The present study used the latent moderated structural equations (LMS) method to investigate latent interactions between familial SES and parent-rated Big Five in a sample of German high school students ...
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European Journal of Personality
40 (2026), 4, S. 755–775
| Emilija Meier-Faust, Annelie Schulze, Yannick Martin, Annabell Daniel, Susanne Bergann
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An increasing number of social science surveys use split questionnaire designs to reduce questionnaire length, presenting only a subset of several questionnaire modules to each respondent while leaving out others. This approach results in large amounts of planned missing data that necessitates imputation. Research shows that imputation is most effective when each module covers various topics. Yet, ...
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International Journal of Social Research Methodology
29 (2026), 3,S. 439–462
| Julian B. Axenfeld, Christian Bruch, Christof Wolf
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Objective: As social norms and relationship dynamics evolve, it is important to examine how transitions from singlehood to partnership, cohabitation, and marriage relate to well-being Method: Using data from two large panel studies in the UK and Germany (1984–2019), we identified N = 27,459 individuals who reported being single and living alone at least once. Analyses focused on a subset (N = 1103; ...
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Journal of Personality
94 (2026), 3, S. 446–457
| Usama EL-Awad, Robert Eves, Justin Hachenberger, Theresa M. Entringer, Robin Goodwin, Anu Realo, Sakari Lemola
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Research has consistently shown that lower earnings for women and higher earnings for men are generally regarded as fair by both women and men. Previous research has focused on structural factors to explain this phenomenon, but has neglected proximate relationships at work. This study examines how the supervisors’ gender relates to employees’ justice attitudes toward the earnings of men and women. ...
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Socio-Economic Review
24 (2026), 2, S. 1169–1192
| Jule Adriaans, Carsten Sauer, Anja Kirsch, Katharina Wrohlich
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Extensive evidence suggests that war-related trauma negatively affects health, yet its long-term and transgenerational effects on psychological and physical adjustment remain poorly understood. This study examines whether individuals who experienced greater war exposure in early childhood—specifically variation in bombardment intensity across German municipalities during the Second World War—show lower, ...
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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
131 (2026), 2, S.355–379
| Theresa M. Entringer, Christoph Halbmeier, Laura Buchinger, Anne K. Reitz