Former SOEP doctoral researcher Valeriia Heidemann successfully defended her dissertation, “The Long Shadow of Forced Migration: Parental Associations with Birth Outcomes and Early Childhood Development,” at Humboldt University (HU Berlin) on 10 March. Her supervisors were Sabine Zinn (HU Berlin, SOEP) and Anna Oksuzyan (Bielefeld University). We congratulate Valeriia on this outstanding achievem ...
Social media usage by children and young people is an increasingly controversial topic. The focus is on risks, opportunities, and possible regulations. Politicians from all relevant parties are now open to a social media ban up to a certain age; the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs has set up a commission of experts. Based on a short survey in the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), conducted in September ...
Die Spritpreise sind hierzulande doppelt so stark gestiegen wie im EU-Schnitt. Woran das liegt, ob illegale Deals eine Rolle spielen, warum ein Tankrabatt wenig bringt. Bei den steigenden Preisen an den Tankstellen müssten Wettbewerbshüter jetzt genau hinschauen, meint Tomaso Duso. Der Chef der Monopolkommission erklärt, wie die Politik den Markt besser regulieren könnte. Der Krieg zwischen Israel ...
In this paper, we combine Census data with death records to examine the relationship between income inequality and race-specific mortality across 5,565 municipalities in Brazil. We find that overall income inequality is strongly associated with Non-White mortality but not with White mortality. To understand this disparity, we decompose the Gini coefficient and find that the racial income gap accounts ...
Competition authorities increasingly rely on economic screening tools to identify markets where firms deviate from competitive norms. Traditional screening methods assume that collusion occurs through secret agreements. However, recent research highlights that firms can use public announcements to coordinate decisions, thereby reducing competition while avoiding detection.We propose a novel approach ...
This study examines whether having daughters affects political preferences and if effects vary across European countries. We estimate effect sizes for 39 countries in the European Social Survey (n = 156,236) and aggregate estimates using random-effects meta-analysis, following a preregistered analysis plan. We find significant evidence that having daughters increases the preferences for gender equality ...
This article addressed the critical issue of citizens’ attitudes toward law enforcement, focusing on motivational postures toward the police (i.e., the psychological dispositions that individuals maintain toward the police). The study contributes by providing the first validated motivational postures scale toward the police in Spanish. It responds to a gap in research on motivational postures within ...
