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The well-being costs of informal caregiving

How does informal care affect caregivers’ well-being? Theories and existing research provide conflicting answers to this question, partly because the temporal processes and conditions under which different aspects of well-being are affected are unknown. Here, we used longitudinal data from Dutch, German, and Australian representative panels (281,884 observations, 28,663 caregivers) to examine theoretically ...

Life Events and Life Satisfaction: Estimating Effects of Multiple Life Events in Combined Models

How do life events affect life satisfaction? Previous studies focused on a single event or separate analyses of several events. However, life events are often grouped non-randomly over the lifespan, occur in close succession, and are causally linked, raising the question of how to best analyze them jointly. Here, we used representative German data (SOEP; N = 40,121 individuals; n = 41,402 event occurrences) ...

Cumulative Inequality and Attitude Formation: How Education Affects Liberal Attitudes Across the Life Course

This study examines how individuals develop distinct attitude patterns over the life course, with a particular focus on the role of educational attainment in shaping trajectories. It differentiates the effects of aging stemming from critical life events from age group differences resulting from observing different people at various life stages (i.e., compositional effects). I formulate propositions ...

Field of Education and Political Behavior: Predicting GAL/TAN Voting

Education is perhaps the most generally used independent variable in the fields of public opinion and vote choice. Yet the extent to which a person is educated is just one way in which education may affect political beliefs and behavior. In this article, we suggest that the substantive field of education has an independent and important role to play over and above level. Using cross-national evidence ...

Donations, volunteering, and life satisfaction in Germany

Donations and volunteering are two important forms of non-market activities that are usually considered separately in the literature. The purpose of this paper is to work out central determinants of giving to organizations. Especially, the importance of volunteering is analyzed. In addition, the aim is to find out whether mutual dependencies exist and to what extent benefits, measured by satisfaction, ...

Bürgerbeteiligung in Deutschland – Wer beteiligt sich wofür mit welchen Auswirkungen?

Bürgerbeteiligungen finden sich in nahezu allen Bereichen des öffentlichen Lebens. Häufig sind Unzufriedenheit mit öffentlichen Entscheidungen und Politikverdrossenheit dafür ausschlaggebend, dass es zu einem Engagement der Bürger außerhalb des Berufslebens kommt. Über Auswirkungen und Struktur von Bürgerinitiativen ist wenig bekannt. Empirische Untersuchungen beschränken sich häufig auf Einzelfallanalysen. ...

Ein Hoch auf alle Omas - In Corona-Zeit Hilfsbereitschaft aber nicht einfordern. Kommentar

Am Sonntag war Oma-Tag! In vielen Ländern wird dieser Tag am zweiten Sonntag im Oktober zu Ehren der Großmütter gefeiert, in Deutschland wird er allerdings außerhalb Bayerns bisher kaum wahrgenommen. Doch die Corona-Pandemie hat uns einmal mehr gezeigt, wie wichtig Großeltern für viele Familien sind. Für jedes zweite Kind sind sie wichtiger Teil der Betreuungs- und Lernumgebung. Über die gesamte frühe ...

Wohnen in der Stadt: Wie eng ist zu eng?

Immer mehr Menschen leben in überbelegten Wohnungen. In einem Forschungsprojekt untersuchen Wirtschaftswissenschaftler und Soziologen ihre Situation.

Soziale Ungleichheit und COVID-19 in Deutschland – Wo stehen wir in der vierten Pandemiewelle?

Behind the wall: the lack of interaction between east and west and the rise of the radical right

What explains the rise of radical right-wing parties in post-socialist Europe? Previous research attributes this phenomenon to the legacies of socialism, emphasizing the macro-socialization processes in education and civil society. This study introduces a novel perspective by highlighting the significance of limited interaction with the non-socialist states, proposing that such interactions could have ...