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Relations among Maternal Life Satisfaction, Shared Activities, and Child Well-Being

Maternal well-being is assumed to be associated with well-being of individual family members, optimal parenting practices, and positive developmental outcomes for children. The objective of this study was to examine the interplay between maternal well-being, parent-child activities, and the well-being of 5- to 7-year-old children. In a sample of N = 291 mother-child dyads, maternal life satisfaction, ...

Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society

Many blame today's economic inequality, stagnation, and political instability on the free market. The solution is to rein in the market, right? Radical Markets turns this thinking on its head. It reveals bold new ways to organize markets for the good of everyone. It shows how the emancipatory force of genuinely open, free, and competitive markets can lead to greater equality, prosperity, and...

Der Worst Case für die deutsche Wirtschaft wäre eine Eskalation zum Handelskrieg

Die USA haben angekündigt, ab 1. Juni Strafzölle auf Stahl- und Aluminiumimporte aus Ländern der Europäischen Union in Kraft zu setzen. DIW-Konjunkturchef Ferdinand Fichtner äußert sich dazu wie folgt:

Die Erwartungen an die Mietpreisbremse waren zu hoch

Vor drei Jahren wurde die Mietpreisbremse eingeführt. Der DIW-Ökonom und Immobilienexperte Claus Michelsen kommentiert die Entwicklung wie folgt:

Was leisten verschiedene Methoden zur Evaluierung der Effektivität von finanzieller Bildung? Warum die Effekte von Bildungsmaßnahmen leicht überschätzt werden und wie randomisierte Experimente verlässliche Antworten geben können

Armut in Deutschland: Ein Vergleich zwischen den beiden Haushaltspanelstudien SOEP und PASS

Die Ergebnisse von Armutsanalysen auf Basis von Befragungsdaten unterliegen statistischen Unsicherheiten und möglichen systematischen Verzerrungen, deren Ursachen sowohl in der Pre-Data-Collection-Phase (z. B. bei der Stichprobenziehung), der Data-Collection-Phase (Unit- bzw. Item-Non-Response), als auch in der Post-Data-Collection-Phase (Gewichtung, Datengenerierung) liegen können. Um diese studienspezifischen ...

Outcomes of Unemployment Episodes during Early Career for Mismatched Workers in the United Kingdom and Germany and the Mediating Effects of Education and Institutions

Our research challenges the traditional view that unemployment is an unequivocal negative event in working life. We argue that depending on workers’ educational attainment and on national-specific institutional settings unemployment might have different implications on young workers who begin their employment careers in low occupational positions. The strongly skill-based and rigid labour market in ...

The Effect of Pension Reforms on Old-Age Income Inequality

Many OECD countries are raising the normal retirement age (NRA), thereby, making early retirement more costly. Whereas such reforms incentivize individuals to work longer, labor market frictions might partly undermine intended behavioral responses. Employing administrative data of West German men, I estimate a dynamic discrete choice model of work, unemployment and retirement allowing for labor market ...

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The Prosociality of Intuitive Decisions Depends on the Status Quo

Previous research came to contradictory conclusion about the prosocial nature of intuitive decisions, as compared to deliberate decisions. This paper proposes the prosociality of the status quo allocation as a determinant of the prosociality of intuitive decisions. I present results from two experiments (N = 1,649) that manipulate time pressure and elicit response times in a binary dictator game. One ...