According to representative survey results of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), volunteer rates have been continually rising in Germany over the past 30 years. Contributing factors include young adults’ growing willingness to volunteer as well as an increase in the volunteer behavior of older people, who begin to volunteer more often after entering retirement. A generational comparison shows that the ...
This RCT examines the effect of a new style finance training during which participants are given personalized feedback on their financial business outcomes in addition to a “rules-of-thumb” training approach. We compare this to the effects of a “rules-of-thumb” training by itself and to a control group. Targeting about 500 small and micro entrepreneurs in Kampala, Uganda, we find that the personalized ...
Dynamische Wechselwirkungen zwischen Persönlichkeitseigenschaften und sozialen Beziehungen:Kurz- und mittelfristige Prozesse im Alltag unter Einbezug weiterer individueller Merkmale und Faktoren des sozialen Kontexts (DIPS) In zwei großen Studien werden kurz- und mittelfristige Dynamiken innerhalb von und zwischen sozialen Beziehungen untersucht. Dabei berücksichtigen die Forschenden erstmals...
In two large-scale studies, researchers are investigating short- and medium-term dynamics within and between social relationships. These are the first studies of their kind to take not only quantitative but also qualitative behavioral relationship characteristics into account. Using multivariate analysis methods, they examine the influence of personality characteristics (e.g., extraversion,...
