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We construct a global index of epidemic news based on text analysis of newspapers from 17 countries. We apply the index to study the economic consequences of epidemics on the world economy in structural vector autoregressions. Epidemic shocks exert significantly and persistently negative effects on output and prices that last for up to two years. There is no quick recovery and no overshooting. The ...
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European Economic Review
158 (2023), 104526, 15 S.
| Konstantin A. Kholodilin, Malte Rieth
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Background: Individuals who are socioeconomically disadvantaged are at increased risk for aging-related diseases and perform less well on tests of cognitive function. The weathering hypothesis proposes that these disparities in physical and cognitive health arise from an acceleration of biological processes of aging. Theories of how life adversity is biologically embedded identify epigenetic alterations, ...
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Clinical Epigenetics
15 (2023), 70, 9 S.
| L. Raffington, T. Schwaba, M. Aikins, David Richter, Gert G. Wagner, K. P. Harden, D. W. Belsky, E. M. Tucker-Drob
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Divorce marks the legal endpoint of a marital union. While divorce is increasingly seen as a ‘clean break’, the past marital history of the couple may nevertheless shape their present conditions. In particular, there may be a legacy of a highly gendered division of labour during marriage that may affect the ex-spouses’ earning trajectories beyond the date of divorce. Using register data from the German ...
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Population Research and Policy Review
42 (2023), 23, 34 S.
| Daniel Brüggmann, Michaela Kreyenfeld
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This study investigates how atypical employment (i.e., part-time, temporary work, mini-jobs) affects workers' ability to accumulate financial assets and exposes them to asset poverty in Germany. Asset poverty occurs when household financial resources (e.g., bank deposits and stock equity) are insufficient to live at the income poverty line for three months. Previously, studies on labour market processes ...
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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
85 (2023), 100803, 11 S.
| Claudia Colombarolli, Philipp M. Lersch
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Using data from the European Social Survey, we examine income fairness evaluations of 17,605 respondents from 28 countries. Respondents evaluated the fairness of their own incomes as well as the fairness of the incomes of the top and bottom income deciles in their countries. Depicted on a single graph, these income fairness evaluations take on a Z-shaped form, which we call the "inequity Z". The inequity ...
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Socius
(2023), 9, S. 1-3
| Fabian Kalleitner, Sandra Bohmann
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This paper examines the drivers of Algeria's energy transformation as well as the cross-cutting issues and challenges in the transformation process. It suggests a framework that accelerates sustainable transformation based on the ideologies of systemic reasoning. Interviews were conducted with 20 energy experts in Algeria, along with a content analysis of policy documents, reports, and previous studies. ...
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Euro-Mediterranean Journal for Environmental Integration
8 (2023), S. 365–379
| Khadidja Sakhraoui, Albert K. Awopone, Christian von Hirschhausen, Noara Kebir, Redha Agadi
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Using detailed data from a unique survey of high school graduates in Germany, we document a gender gap in expected full-time earnings of more than 15%. We decompose this early gender gap and find that especially differences in coefficients help explain different expectations. In particular, the effects of having time for family as career motive and being first-generation college student are associated ...
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Economics of Education Review
94 (2023), 102398, 14 S.
| Andreas Leibing, Frauke Peter, Sevrin Waights, C. Katharina Spieß
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The development of energy systems is not a technocratic process but equally shaped by societal and cultural forces. Key instruments in this process are model-based scenarios describing a future energy system. Applying the concept of fictional expectations from social economics, we show how energy scenarios are tools to channel political, economic, and academic efforts into a common direction. To impact ...
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Energy Research & Social Science
97 (2023), 102957, 11 S.
| Leonard Göke, Jens Weibezahn, Christian von Hirschhausen
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Bosch-Domènech et al. (2014) reported a negative association between 2D:4D, a suggested marker of prenatal testosterone exposure, and the Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT) in a sample of 623 university students. In this pre-registered study, we test if we can replicate their findings in a general population sample of over 2,500 individuals from Germany. We find no statistically significant association ...
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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
209 (2023), S. 288-307
| Levent Neyse, Frank M. Fossen, Magnus Johannesson, Anna Dreber
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Following a landmark court ruling in 2005, more than half of Germany’s universities started charging tuition fees, which were later abolished in a staggered manner. We exploit the fact that even students who were already enrolled had to start paying fees. We show that fees increase study effort and degree completion among these students. However, fees also decrease first-time university enrollment ...
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European Economic Review
154 (2023), 104431, 28 S.
| Jan Bietenbeck, Andreas Leibing, Jan Marcus, Felix Weinhardt