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Intergenerational relations have received close attention in the context of population aging and increased childcare provision by grandparents. However, few studies have investigated the psychological consequences of becoming a grandparent. In a preregistered test of grandparenthood as a developmental task in middle and older adulthood, we used representative panel data from the Netherlands (N = 563) ...
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European Journal of Personality
37 (2023), 5, 560-586
| Michael D. Krämer, Manon A. van Scheppingen, William J. Chopik, David Richter
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High levels of concerns about immigration pose a threat to the successful integration of immigrants and may even destabilize heterogeneous societies. This study assesses the mechanisms underlying the association between subjective well-being and concerns about immigration. The analyses rely on the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (1999-2017), a long-running data set that follows individuals over time ...
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European Sociological Review
40 (2024), 4, 686-703
| Fabian Kratz
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Building on a thick strand of the literature on the determinants of higher-order births, this study uses a gender and class perspective to analyse second birth progression rates in Germany. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1990 to 2020, individuals are classified based on their occupation into: upper service, lower service, skilled manual/higher-grade routine nonmanual, and semi-/unskilled ...
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European Journal of Population
39 (2023), 1, 5
| Michaela Kreyenfeld, Dirk Konietzka, Philippe Lambert, Vincent Jerald Ramos
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International migration of couples is rising. Still, there is little evidence on men’s and women’s domestic work hours before and after migration. This is despite the fact that domestic work provides deep insights into family life and, for migrants, is directly linked to integration. Therefore, this study examines how immigrant men and women change their domestic work hours following migration, using ...
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Journal of Family Issues
44 (2023), 4, 954-976
| Magdalena Krieger, Zerrin Salikutluk
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Balancing parenthood and employment can be challenging and distressing, particularly for single mothers. At the same time, transitioning to employment can improve the financial situations of single mothers and provide them with access to social networks, which can have beneficial effects on their health and well-being. Currently, however, it is not well understood whether the overall impact of employment ...
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Social Science Research
114 (2023), 102906
| Mine Kühn, Christian Dudel, Martin Werding
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On average, temporary jobs are far less stable than permanent jobs. This higher instability could potentially lower workers’ incentives to relocate towards the workplace, thereby resulting in longer commutes. However, surprisingly few studies have investigated the link between temporary employment and commuting length. Building on the notion that individuals strive to optimize their utility when deciding ...
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Transportation
51 (2024), 1, 1467-1491
| Inga Laß, Thomas Skora, Heiko Rüger, Mark Wooden, Martin Bujard
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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 ...
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Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
1531 (2024), 1, 60-68
| 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 ...
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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
125 (2023), 2, 421-436
| 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). ...
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Social Forces
102 (2023), 2, 454-474
| 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 ...
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Frontiers in Sociology
8 (2023), 1265302
| Bernd Liedl, Nina-Sophie Fritsch, Cristina Samper Mejia, Roland Verwiebe