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DIW Wochenbericht 35 / 2018
2018
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
Background: It has become increasingly common in multiple purpose general population surveys to integrate different kinds of biomarker in the data collection process.Objective: In this article we test the predictive power of five different functional forms of CVD-related biomarkers for all-cause and CVD mortality in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS).Methods: We use five different functional forms ...
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Demographic Research
38 (2018), Art. 62, S. 1933-2002
| Hannes Kröger, Rasmus Hoffmann
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
Objectives This systematic review and meta-analysis combined published study-level data and unpublished individual-participant data with the aim of quantifying the relation between long working hours and the onset of depressive symptoms. Methods We searched PubMed and Embase for published prospective cohort studies and included available cohorts with unpublished individual-participant data. We used ...
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Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health
44. (2018), 3, S. 239-250
| Marianna Virtanen, Markus Jokela, Ida E. H. Madsen, Linda L. Magnusson Hanson, Tea Lallukka, Solja T. Nyberg, Lars Alfredsson, G. David Batty, Jakob B. Bjorner, Marianne Borritz, Hermann Burr, Nico Dragano, Raimund Erbel, Jane E. Ferrie, Katriina Heikkilä, Anders Knutsson, Markku Koskenvuo, Eero Lahelma, Martin L. Nielsen, Tuula Oksanen, Jan H. Pejtersen, Jaana Pentti, Ossi Rahkonen, Reiner Rugulies, Paula Salo, Jürgen Schupp, Martin J. Shipley, Johannes Siegrist, Archana Singh-Manoux, Sakari B. Suominen, Töres Theorell, Jussi Vahtera, Gert G. Wagner, Jian Li Wang, Vasoontara Yiengprugsawan, Hugo Westerlund, Mika Kivimäki
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Diskussionspapiere 1744 / 2018
Many important decisions within public and private organizations are based on recommendations from expert committees and advisory boards. A notable example is the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's advisory committees, which make recommendations on new drug applications. Previously the voting procedure for these committees was sequential, however, due to concerns of herding and momentum effects the ...
2018| Melissa Newham, Rune Midjord
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Sonstige Publikationen des DIW / Aufsätze 2018
Towards the very end of this legislative period, a cross-caucus parliamentary majority gave same-sex marriage the green light – progress for the legal equality of homosexuals in Germany. This report focuses on the life situations of homosexual and bisexual people in Germany. The careers they pursue, for example, differ from those of heterosexuals. Hourly wages are an area of significant disparity: ...
2018| Martin Kroh, Simon Kühne, Christian Kipp, David Richter
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DIW Wochenbericht 39 / 2018
2018| Jürgen Schupp
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
Problem gambling is a serious socioeconomic problem involving high individual and social costs. In this article, we study risk preferences of problem gamblers including their risk attitudes in the gain and loss domains, their weighting of probabilities, and their degree of loss aversion. Our findings indicate that problem gamblers are systematically more risk taking and less sensitive toward changes ...
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Journal of Experimental Psychology : General
147 (2018), 8, S. 1241-1255
| Patrick Ring, Catharina C. Probst, Levent Neyse, Stephan Wolff, Christian Kaernbach, Thilo van Eimeren, Colin F. Camerer, Ulrich Schmidt
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SOEPpapers 979 / 2018
This paper provides the first empirical analysis of the (short-term) welfare consequences of an alcohol ban. Using subjective well-being data to proxy individual welfare, I apply a regression discontinuity design where the date of the implementation of the ban in the German federal state of Baden-Wuerttemberg functions as discontinuity. I find that the ban reduces life satisfaction of the total population ...
2018| René Petilliot
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
Based on considerations of societal mothering ideologies, qualitative gender studies suggest detrimental effects of motherhood on women’s mental well-being. However, numerous quantitative life course analyses find no such effect. This dissonance may originate in the measurement of well-being usually employed in longitudinal quantitative designs, which does not capture the dimensions of well-being identified ...
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Advances in Life Course Research
37 (2018), S. 31-41
| Marco Giesselmann, Marina Hagen, Reinhard Schunck
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SOEPpapers 1016 / 2018
Starting from December 2012, insurers in the European Union were prohibited from charging gender-discriminatory prices. We examine the effect of this unisex mandate on risk segmentation in the German health insurance market. While gender used to be a pricing factor in Germany’s private health insurance (PHI) sector, it was never used as a pricing factor in the social health insurance (SHI) sector. ...
2018| Shan Huang, Martin Salm