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Die meisten Menschen fühlen sich jünger, als sie nach Lebensjahren sind. Dieser Effekt der »subjektiven Verjüngung« steigt sowohl mit dem Alter als auch von Generation zu Generation.
In:
Spektrum online, 2023-05-13
(2023),
| Christiane Gelitz
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Objectives: To examine whether patients with congenital heart disease (CHD) are less likely to have a partner or children than individuals from the general population. Methods: Longitudinal study with two assessments of the same patients (n = 244) from a hospital population and controls (n = 238) from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) using parental education, patients age, and sex as matching ...
In:
Congenital Heart Disease
18 (2023), 3, 337-348
| Siegfried Geyer, Claudia Dellas, Thomas Paul, Matthias Müller, Kambiz Norozi
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Relations to family and friends are a key dimension of an individual’s social integration and, by extension, are crucial for the social cohesion of societies. Based on that principle, this study explores the effects of unemployment on close personal relations and asks whether negative effects of unemployment are primarily explicable as financial losses or social aspects of identity. This analytical ...
In:
KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
75 (2023), Suppl 1, 357–386
| Carlotta Giustozzi
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This study analyzes the causal effect of an increase in the retirement age on official health diagnoses. We exploit a sizable cohort-specific pension reform for women using a Difference-in-Differences approach. The analysis is based on official records covering all individuals insured by the public health system in Germany and including all certified diagnoses by practitioners. This enables us to gain ...
In:
The Journal of the Economics of Ageing
23 (2022), 100403
| Mara Barschkett, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Anna Hammerschmid
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This study constructs a comprehensive wealth distribution for Germany to inform debate in Germany and internationally on the distribution of wealth including pension entitlements. We estimate the net present value of pension wealth in Germany in 2012 and 2017 using Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data. When including pension wealth, German households’ wealth-income ratio increases from 570% to 850% in ...
In:
Economics Letters
231 (2023), 111299
| Charlotte Bartels, Timm Bönke, Rick Glaubitz, Markus M. Grabka, Carsten Schröder
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We compute participation tax rates across the EU and find that work disincentives inherent in tax–benefit systems largely depend on household composition and the individual’s earner role within the household. We then estimate participation elasticities using an IV group estimator that enables us to investigate the responsiveness of individuals to work incentives. We contribute to the literature on ...
In:
International Tax and Public Finance
30 (2023), 1, 167-214
| Charlotte Bartels, Cortnie Shupe
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Objective: To evaluate the socioeconomic patterns of SARS-CoV-2 antigen contacts through infection, vaccination or both (“hybrid immunity”) after 1 year of vaccination campaign. Methods: Data were derived from the German seroepidemiological Corona Monitoring Nationwide study (RKI-SOEP-2; n = 10,448; November 2021–February 2022). Combining serological and self-report data, we estimated adjusted prevalence ...
In:
International Journal of Public Health
68 (2023), 1606152
| Susanne Bartig, Florian Beese, Benjamin Wachtler, Markus M. Grabka, Elisabetta Mercuri, Lorenz Schmid, Nora Schmid-Küpke, Madlen Schranz, Laura Goßner, Wenke Niehues, Sabine Zinn, Christina Poethko-Müller, Lars Schaade, Claudia Hövener, Antje Gößwald, Jens Hoebel
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In Deutschland gibt es mehr als 150 familien- und ehebezogene Maßnahmen, die entweder direkt für Familien konzipiert sind oder die Lebenssituationen von Familien berücksichtigen. Zu den größten Ausgabenposten des Staates gehören dabei das Kindergeld und die öffentliche Tagesbetreuung von Kindern. Einen weiteren großen Anteil nimmt das Ehegatten-splitting ein, also der Steuervorteil für verheiratete ...
In:
ifo Schnelldienst
76 (2023), 9, 3-6
| Miriam Beblo
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Abstract Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study began in 2009, and built on and incorporated its predecessor the British Household Panel Survey. It is the largest survey of its kind in the world and provides rich opportunities for economic research and policy analysis. In this introduction to a symposium on Understanding Society, we review the main features of the study, how it ...
In:
Fiscal Studies
44 (2023), 4, 317-340
| Michaela Benzeval, Thomas F. Crossley, Edith Aguirre
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This paper investigates the causal effect of education on life satisfaction, exploring effect heterogeneity along employment status. We use exogenous variation in compulsory schooling requirements and the build-up of new, academically more demanding schools, shifting educational attainment along the entire distribution of schooling. Leveraging plant closures and longitudinal information, we also address ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2023,
(SOEPpapers 1192)
| Alexander Bertermann, Daniel A. Kamhöfer, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch