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In this paper, we combine Census data with death records to examine the relationship between income inequality and race-specific mortality across 5,565 municipalities in Brazil. We find that overall income inequality is strongly associated with Non-White mortality but not with White mortality. To understand this disparity, we decompose the Gini coefficient and find that the racial income gap accounts ...
In:
World Development
202 (2026),
| Gedeão Locks, Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez
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How does the recent hike in interest rates translate into housing markets and shape preferences for government intervention? Homeownership constitutes the most typical form of private wealth accumulation. Yet, with the decade long period of low interest rates ending in 2022, higher financing costs decreased the affordability of ownership substantially. This paper analyzes implications for the political ...
In:
European Journal of Political Economy
(2025), 102714
| Hannah Loeffler
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We present a structured additive regression approach to model conditional densities given scalar covariates, where only samples of the conditional distributions are observed. This links our approach to distributional regression models for scalar data. The model is formulated in a Bayes Hilbert space -- preserving nonnegativity and integration to one under summation and scalar multiplication -- with ...
arXiv:
2025,
| Eva-Maria Maier, Alexander Fottner, Sonja Greven, Almond Stöcker
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Despite extensive literature on incentives to increase employees’ work performance, economic research on employer-provided non-monetary benefits remains rare. This study investigates the relationship between benefits and employees’ work effort utilizing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. The analysis is based on data from eleven survey waves from 2006 to 2022 and considers five benefit types: ...
In:
Review of Managerial Science
(online first) (2026),
| Helena Manger
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This paper investigates measurement error using a German linked survey administrative dataset. By contributing to a small branch of the literature that allows the possibility of erroneous earnings from both sides of a linked survey-administrative dataset, this study provides a replication of two previously proposed versions of a representation of different combinations of (correct and incorrect) survey ...
Münster:
Universität Münster,
2025,
| Stella Martin
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While socioeconomic status (SES) and personality have both been identified as relevant predictors of academic achievement, little is known about their possible interplay in predicting school performance. The present study used the latent moderated structural equations (LMS) method to investigate latent interactions between familial SES and parent-rated Big Five in a sample of German high school students ...
In:
European Journal of Personality
(online first) (2025),
| Emilija Meier-Faust, Annelie Schulze, Yannick Martin, Annabell Daniel, Susanne Bergann
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Stock market participation among working household heads jumped upwards in 2020 – in Germany by about 25%. A major cause is the required use of work from home (WfH). We show this by repeating a benchmark study and adding WfH to the explanatory variables. Moreover, we implement an instrumental variables estimation based on industry-specific levels of WfH-capacity. The transmission channels seem to work ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2025,
(DIW Discussion Papers No. 2138)
| Lorenz Meister, Lukas Menkhoff, Carsten Schröder
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The issue evaluated was how cross-cultural cognitive pretests affect the reliability and comparability of data when studying refugees and using cross-language comparisons. Three instruments employed to assess general and health-related quality of life were revised based on the findings of cognitive pretests. The versions before and after cognitive pretests were randomly assigned to respondents in two ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
179 (2025), 1, 527–548
| Natalja Menold
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Life satisfaction should be analysed focussing on the institutionalized occupational and private life, on preferences, and on the life course and controlling for life success. To do so, four hypotheses are tested. (1) Private life preference affects private life satisfaction positively, and occupational life satisfaction negatively. (2) Private life preference is affected by private life satisfaction ...
In:
Applied Research in Quality of Life
20 (2025), 3, 1139–1162
| Klaus Birkelbach, Heiner Meulemann, Christian Sondergeld, Veronika Witt
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A large body of research shows that police officers hold more conservative political orientations than the general population, both across countries and over time. Studies seeking to explain this phenomenon report inconclusive findings. This paper studies two possible explanations: self-selection of politically conservative individuals into the police force (selection hypothesis) and growing conservatism ...
In:
Political Research Exchange
8 (2026), 1,
| Felix Bitterer, Simon Kühne