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Centre-Based Care and Parenting Activities

We examine the relationship between parenting activities and centre-based care using time diary and survey data for mothers in Germany. While mothers using centre-based care spend significantly less time in the presence of their child, we find that differences in the time spent on specific activities such as reading, talking, and playing with the child are relatively small or zero. The pattern of results ...

Using machine learning to uncover the relation between age and life satisfaction

This study applies a machine learning (ML) approach to around 400,000 observations from the German Socio-Economic Panel to assess the relation between life satisfaction and age. We show that with our ML-based approach it is possible to isolate the effect of age on life satisfaction across the lifecycle without explicitly parameterizing the complex relationship between age and other covariates—this ...

Economic education at the expense of indoctrination? Evidence from Germany

We study the impact of a recent curriculum reform introducing mandatory economic education in higher-track secondary schools in Southwest Germany. The curriculum reform provides the opportunity to leverage the exogenous variation in exposure to economic education relative to the previous cohort not affected by the reform. One year after exposure to the mandate, we observe positive treatment effects ...

Datenanalyse: Wie Studenten über Einwanderung denken

Im Osten ist die Skepsis gegenüber Migranten auch unter Studenten größer als im Westen – aber Daten zeigen eine Annäherung. Ein Gastbeitrag.

Alleinlebenden älteren Menschen droht in Corona-Zeiten Vereinsamung

Seit März hat die Corona-Pandemie Deutschland fest im Griff. Weitreichende Beschränkungen des sozialen Lebens wurden vor allem zum Schutz älterer und weiterer besonders gefährdeter Menschen erlassen. Seit Mai werden diese Maßnahmen schrittweise gelockert. Dabei stellt sich verstärkt die Frage, wie trotz der Lockerungen vulnerable Teile der Bevölkerung geschützt werden können. In vielen Ländern wird ...

Does Contact with Foreigners Reduce Worries about Immigration? A Longitudinal Analysis in Germany

This article examines how contact with perceived foreigners affects natives’ attitudes towards immigration. Using six waves of individual level panel data from Germany (2007–2017), we find that natives’ reported mutual visits with foreigners reduce worries about immigration. However, the results do not imply an increase in this effect in the course of repeated contact. Our analyses also consider the ...

The Case of Deutsche Telekom: How Stock Market Crashes Can Persistantly Affect Household Investment Decisions

Since decades, only one fourth of German households invest in shares. One exception was during the three IPOs from 1996 to 2000 of the Deutsche Telekom, which gave Germans a taste to enter the stock market. However, the fall in the share price shortly after the second IPO, followed by corruption scandals of the company, put an end to their enthusiasm. The present study based on SOEP data shows that ...

Der Fall der T-Aktie: Börsencrashs können dauerhaft Investitionsentscheidungen von Haushalten negativ beeinflussen

Seit Jahrzehnten investiert nur jeder vierte bis fünfte Haushalt in Deutschland in Aktien. Mit den drei Börsengängen der Deutschen Telekom 1996 bis 2000 wurden die Deutschen in Aktienlaune versetzt. Der Kurssturz kurz nach dem zweiten Börsengang, gefolgt von Korruptionsskandalen, beendete aber die gute Aktienstimmung. Die vorliegende Studie auf Basis von SOEP-Daten zeigt, dass die Ereignisse rund um ...

Does private health insurance prevent the onset of critical illness and disability in a universal public insurance system?

There are numerous studies investigating the effect of health insurance on healthcare utilisation, but there is little empirical evidence examining the effect of private health insurance on objective health outcomes in a universal public health system. Tracking each individual’s health status using panel data, we explore whether there is a difference in the probability of contracting a critical illness ...