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To ensure sufficient access to healthcare in remote areas, some countries allow physicians to directly dispense prescribed drugs through on-site pharmacies. Depending on the medication prescribed, this may pose a significant financial incentive for physicians to over-prescribe. This study, therefore, explored the effect of on-site pharmacies on antibiotic dispensing in a social health insurance system. ...
In:
Social Science & Medicine
321 (2023), 115791
| Barbara Stacherl, Anna-Theresa Renner, Daniela Weber
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Experiencing the onset of a chronic disease is a serious health event impacting living conditions and wellbeing. Investigating wellbeing development and its predictors is crucial to understand how individuals adapt to chronic illnesses. This study (i) analyzed the impact of a chronic disease on wellbeing development, and (ii) explored spatial healthcare access as potential moderating factor.Data were ...
In:
European Journal of Public Health
(online first) (2023),
| Barbara Stacherl, Odile Sauzet
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DIW focus / 2023
Vor dem Hintergrund zunehmender Vermögensungleichheit treten dynastische Familien als machtvolle gesellschaftliche Akteure hervor. Das Wiedererstarken ihres Einflusses auf den Kapitalismus fordert den öffentlichen Diskurs und die Sozialwissenschaften gleichermaßen heraus, glaubte man doch, solche Familien seien ein vormodernes Relikt. Welche Rolle spielen sie heute als Akteure im gegenwärtigen Kapitalismus? ...
2023| Isabell Stamm
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Abstract Do cynical individuals have a stronger desire for power and are they more likely to acquire power at work? The negative consequences of cynicism—for cynics themselves and the people around them—render the examination of these questions particularly important. We first examined the role of cynicism in power motives. Results showed that more cynical individuals have a greater desire for power ...
In:
British Journal of Psychology
(online first) (2023),
| Olga Stavrova, Daniel Ehlebracht, Dongning Ren
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Why is the empirical evidence for birth-order effects on human psychology so inconsistent? In contrast to the influential view that competitive dynamics among siblings permanently shape a person's personality, we find evidence that these effects are limited to the family environment. We tested this context-specific learning hypothesis in the domain of risk taking, using two large survey datasets from ...
In:
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
online first (2023),
| Tomás Lejarraga, Daniel D. Schnitzlein, Sarah C. Dahmann, Ralph Hertwig
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Do changes in religiosity beget changes in personality, or do changes in personality precede changes in religiosity? Existing evidence supports longitudinal associations between personality and religiosity at the between-person level, such that individual differences in personality predict subsequent individual differences in change in religiosity. However, no research to date has examined whether ...
In:
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
(online first) (2023),
| Madeline R. Lenhausen, Ted Schwaba, Jochen E. Gebauer, Theresa M. Entringer, Wiebke Bleidorn
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Positive assortative mating may be a driver of wealth inequalities, but this relationship has not yet been examined. We investigate the association between assortative mating and wealth inequality within and between households drawing on data from the United States Survey of Income and Program Participation and measuring current, individual-level wealth for newly formed couples (N = 3936 couples). ...
In:
Social Forces
00 (2023), 1-21
| Philipp M. Lersch, Reinhard Schunck
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The COVID-19 crisis had severe social and economic impact on the life of most citizens around the globe. Individuals living in single-parent households were particularly at risk, revealing detrimental labour market outcomes and assessments of future perspectives marked by worries. As it has not been investigated yet, in this paper we study, how their perception about the future and their outlook on ...
In:
Frontiers in Sociology
8 (2023),
| Bernd Liedl, Nina-Sophie Fritsch, Cristina Samper Mejia, Roland Verwiebe
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Immigrants bring contemporary demographic changes to the destination country through their contributions to diversity, and future population. In this study, we examine the partnership and fertility trajectories for individuals with Turkish, Russian, Kazak, Polish, and Southern European backgrounds born between 1970 and 1999. We adopt a life course perspective using event history techniques on retrospective ...
In:
International Migration Review
(online first) (2023),
| Chia Liu, Hill Kulu
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Informal care plays an important role in the provision of care. However, previous research has mainly focused on middle- or older-aged informal carers and less is known about informal care among young adults, its consequences on educational achievement and employment transitions and whether this varies across country contexts. Using data from the 2009–2018 waves of the UK Household Longitudinal Study ...
In:
Journal of Social Policy
(online first) (2023),
| Markus Klaus King, Baowen Xue, Rebecca Lacey, Giorgio Di Gessa, Morten Wahrendorf, Anne McMunn, Christian Deindl