Diese Anmerkungen verfolgen zwei bescheidene Ziele: (1.) über den Überblicks-Beitrag von Behrens (2010) hinaus zu verdeutlichen, warum das Erheben von ‚Biomarkern‘ bis hin zu ‚Gen-Informationen‘ für die Soziologie wichtig ist, und (2.) über erste Erfahrungen bei der Erhebung von Gen-Material in einem bevölkerungsrepräsentativen Survey kurz zu berichten.
Policy-makers worldwide are embarking on school programmes aimed at boosting students’ resilience. One facet of resilience is a belief about cause and effect in life, locus of control. I test whether positive control beliefs work as a psychological buffer against health shocks in adulthood. To identify behavioural differences in labour supply, I focus on a selected group of full-time employed men of ...
We investigate which socioeconomic groups are most likely to change their risk preferences over the lifecourse using data from a nationally representative German survey and methods to separate age from cohort and period effects. Tolerance to risk drops by 0.5 SD across all socioeconomic groups from late adolescence up to age 45. From age 45 socioeconomic gradients emerge – risk tolerance continues ...