Die Covid-19 Pandemie stellt die Gesellschaft vor vielfältige Herausforderungen. Das erste Ziel des vorliegenden Projekts ist es, die Folgen der Pandemie für verschiedene gesellschaftliche (Risiko-) Gruppen in Deutschland, soziale Ungleichheiten und die Rolle des Wohlfahrtsstaats zu beschreiben. Dazu wird im ersten Schritt die gesundheitliche und sozio-ökonomische Situation der Bevölkerung vor...
The Covid-19 pandemic poses numerous societal challenges. We will examine how it affects distinct social and at-risk groups in Germany, what it implies for societal inequalities, and what role welfare state measures play. First, we will describe the situation of the population before and during the pandemic in the health and the socio-economic domain. In each domain, we will study a set of core...
We present evidence from a repeated survey on risky asset holdings carried out on a representative sample of the German population six times between April and June 2020. Given the size of the Covid-19 shock, we find little evidence of portfolio rebalancing in April 2020. In May, however, individual investors started buying heavily, fueling market recovery. The cross-section shows large differences ...
Problem gamblers discount delayed rewards more rapidly than do non-gambling controls. Understanding this impulsivity is important for developing treatment options. In this article, we seek to make two contributions: First, we ask which of the currently debated economic models of intertemporal choice (exponential versus hyperbolic versus quasi-hyperbolic) provides the best description of gamblers’ discounting ...
Repeated experiences and activities drive personality development. Leisure activities are among the daily routines that may elicit personality change. Yet despite the important role they play in daily life, little is known about their prospective effects on personality traits and vice versa. The objective of this study was to examine the extent to which within-person changes in leisure activities lead ...
Immer wieder ist in Debatten von einer neuen Lagerbildung die Rede: Demnach sprächen sich zum Beispiel die besser gestellten Gruppen für Migration und die Anerkennung von Diversität aus, während die schlechter gestellten dem ablehnend gegenüberstünden. Auf Basis der SOEP-Innovations-Stichprobe aus dem Jahr 2017 hat nun ein Team von Sozialwissenschaftlern der Humboldt Universität ...
