Wie unterscheiden sich Menschen in ihren sozialen Beziehungen? Mit Hilfe von Smartphones geht dieser Frage ein Team von WissenschaftlerInnen des SOEP am DIW Berlin, der Universität Heidelberg und der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München nach. Dabei setzen die PsychologInnen Smartphones einerseits als „mobile Fragebögen“ ein. Andererseits untersuchen sie die alltägliche ...
This is the first paper to examine experimentally effects of information provision on beliefs about pecuniary and non-pecuniary returns of postgraduate education, enrolment intentions and realized enrolment. We find that our treatment causally affects beliefs measured six months after treatment. The effects on beliefs differ by gender and academic background, and we find that stated enrolment intentions ...
Very wealthy people influence political and societal processes by wielding their economic power through foundations, lobbying groups, media campaigns, as investors and employers. Because personality shapes goals, attitudes, and behaviour, it is important to understand the personality traits that characterize the rich. We used representative survey data to construct two large samples, one from the general ...
The debate about making investments and the financial sector more sustainable often focuses on a narrow distinction between "green" and "brown" assets that does not match the situation in the real economy, writes Franziska Schütze from the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW). The sustainable finance expert says journalists need to read between the lines and make the many colours visible to ...
