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Cultivated land transfer serves as an efficient way to mitigate the escalating issue of cultivated land abandonment due to labor migration driven by the urban-rural gap, while also ensuring national food security. Nevertheless, the impact of how urban-rural resident’ life quality gap (RLQG) affect cultivated land transfer decision-making remains unclear. This study developed a theoretical framework ...
In:
Land Use Policy
148 (2025), 107402
| Weiwen Wang, Yang Shen, Jiajun Qiao, Ying Wang, Lochan Kumar Batala, Jie Xiao
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Performance-contingent pay raises productivity, yet in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) only about 16% of workers report receiving performance pay, with the incidence being roughly seven percentage points higher among university graduates than among non-graduates. This coexistence of low aggregate take-up and a strong skill gradient is puzzling. This paper accounts for these twin facts with a ...
Erlangen:
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg,
2026,
| Jan Weikl
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FAIRness of research data, meaning that data are managed according to the principles of being Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable, has become a ubiquitous requirement in research data policies as well as in general guidelines for research data management. Meeting this requirement largely depends on the availability of rich and standardized DDI-metadata—based on the Data Documentation ...
In:
Data Science Journal
25 (2026), 13
| Knut Wenzig, Andreas Daniel, Dominique Hansen, Tobias Koberg, Mihaela Tudose
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Reproducibility in social science is often hindered by inconsistent data preparation and limited transparency. The LabFam Individual Biographies (LIB) project addresses this challenge by providing open, cross-national harmonization of life-course histories from five long-running panels: Australia (HILDA), Germany (SOEP), Switzerland (SHP), the United Kingdom (BHPS/UKHLS), and the United States (PSID). ...
Research Square:
2025,
| Ewa Weychert, Beata Osiewalska, Lucas van der Velde, Anna Matysiak
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Individual differences in social traits such as the affiliation motive are closely linked to the formation and maintenance of social relationships. Most previous research focused on long-term characteristics or momentary assessments of social relationships (e.g., social network size, relationship quality), whereas theoretical accounts have emphasized the temporal dynamics, that is, how social interactions ...
In:
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
129 (2025), 2, 341–362
| Cornelia Wrzus, Yannick Roos, Michael D. Krämer, Ramona Schoedel, Mitja D. Back, David Richter
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Epigenetic clocks are emerging as promising tools for examining social and health disparities. These measures are typically developed using blood DNA methylation (DNAm) data. Cheek swabs, being less invasive than blood collection, can be used to assay buccal DNAm. This study examines how buccal-originated epigenetic clocks relate to socioeconomic status (SES) and health, and compares these associations ...
In:
GeroScience
(online first) (2025),
| Qiao Wu, Marta Bosanac, Maxim N. Shokhirev, Laurel Raffington
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This study examines whether having daughters affects political preferences and if effects vary across European countries. We estimate effect sizes for 39 countries in the European Social Survey (n = 156,236) and aggregate estimates using random-effects meta-analysis, following a preregistered analysis plan. We find significant evidence that having daughters increases the preferences for gender equality ...
SSRN,
2025,
| Yifan Yang, Magnus Johannesson, Anna Dreber, Frank Fossen, Levent Neyse, Felix Holzmeister
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Previous research suggests that women tend to self-report higher life satisfaction and happiness, lower health status and trust, and more left-leaning political preferences than men. We revisit the gender gap in these outcome variables using random-effects meta-analysis, aggregating data across 39 countries surveyed in the European Social Survey (n ≈ 500,000). Measured in Cohen’s d units, women, on ...
In:
Scientific Reports
16 (2025), 1, 3406
| Yifan Yang, Magnus Johannesson, Frank Fossen, Levent Neyse, Felix Holzmeister
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In this paper, we present an application of a bounding approach to age–period–cohort (APC) analysis, recently developed by Fosse and Winship (2019), offering a transparent and assumption-aware alternative to commonly used identification strategies. Specifically, we apply the method to evaluate long-term trends in public concern about crime in Germany, addressing whether observed changes reflect genuine ...
In:
Journal of Quantitative Criminology
(2025),
| Gordey Yastrebov, Alexander Trinidad, Thomas Leopold
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Young job seekers commonly misperceive training returns; we test whether these beliefs misalign choices between two widely offered tracks—job-skills and business-skills training for young women in Liberia. We reassign 30 percent of the applicants from an oversubscribed job-skills program to business-skills and compare them to applicants who remain in their preferred track. In the short run, reassigned ...
SSRN:
2025,
| Juliane Zenker, Jonas Stehl, Shuba Chakravarty, Mattias K.A. Lundberg