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Leisure Activities as a Driver of Personality Development? A Random-Intercept Cross-lagged Panel Model across 13 Years in Adulthood

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 ...

Keine eindeutige Lagerbildung bei Ungleichheitskonflikten – Open-Access-Artikel auf Basis der SOEP-Innovationsstichprobe erhält den ersten Preis der Fritz Thyssen Stiftung

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 ...

Long-run Expectations of Households

The rational expectations assumption, e.g. in life-cycle models and portfolio-choice models, prescribes that all actions are in line with a well-structured and unbiased system of expectations. In reality, justification and identification of expectations are nontrivial, and we lack empirical evidence especially for the long run. This paper starts to fill this gap and elicits short-run and long-run expectations ...

Urban Green Is More than the Absence of City: Structural and Functional Neural Basis of Urbanicity and Green Space in the Neighbourhood of Older Adults

The relationship between urbanization, the brain, and human mental health is subject to intensive debate in the current scientific literature. Particularly, since mood and anxiety disorders as well as schizophrenia are known to be more frequent in urban compared to rural regions.Here, we investigated the association between cerebral signatures, mental health and land use indicators (Urban Fabric and ...

Kein Grund zu Angst vor Inflation

Wie das Statistische Bundesamt heute mitgeteilt hat, lagen die Verbraucherpreise im Juli 2021 um voraussichtlich 3,8 Prozent über dem Vorjahresmonat - deutlich mehr als im Juni und zum ersten Mal seit Sommer 2008 über der Drei-Prozent-Marke. Dazu ein Statement von Marcel Fratzscher, Präsident des Deutschen Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin):

Extending the Kitagawa–Oaxaca–Blinder Decomposition Approach to Panel Data

The Kitagawa–Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition approach has been widely used to attribute group-level differences in an outcome to differences in endowment, coefficients, and their interactions. The method has been implemented for Stata in the popular oaxaca command for cross-sectional analyses. In recent decades, however, research questions have been more often focused on the decomposition of group-based ...

Lights along the Frontier: Convergence of Economic Activity in the Proximity of the Polish-German Border, 1992–2012

This paper studies regional economic development on the municipality-level in Poland and Germany along the Oder–Neisse border. We use high-quality satellite night-time light intensity data as an innovative and comparable measure to proxy for overall economic activity on both sides of the border consistently over a long period of time (1992–2012). We use descriptive heat maps as well as regression analysis ...

Cohort Profile: Follow-up of a Berlin Aging Study II (Base-II) Subsample as Part of the GendAge Study

Purpose The study ‘Sex- and gender-sensitive prevention of cardiovascular and metabolic disease in older adults in Germany’, the GendAge study, focuses on major risk factors for cardiovascular and metabolic diseases and on the development of major outcomes from intermediate phenotypes in the context of sex and gender differences. It is based on a follow-up examination of a subsample (older group) of ...

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