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Wieso ist das Vermögen in Deutschland so ungleich verteilt?

In Deutschland besitzen wenige Menschen sehr viel. Millionen andere haben keine oder nur geringe Ersparnisse. Das Vermögen ist ungleicher verteilt als in anderen Ländern. Woran liegt das?

Genes, Cognitive Skills, and Preferences

We examine the relationship between cognitive genetic endowments, measured via a validated polygenic index, and economic preferences. Using representative panel data linking genetic information to stated and revealed preferences, we find that higher cognitive PGI scores are associated with greater risk aversion, increased prosociality, and higher likelihood of holding financial assets, but show no ...

Unintended Consequences of COVID-19 Public Health and Social Measures in Camps and Camp-Like Settings: A Systematic Review and Conceptual Analysis

ObjectivesThis study examines unintended consequences (UIC) of public health and social measures (PHSM) in camps and camp-like settings and assesses the pathways through which these UIC arise.MethodsWe conducted a systematic review and conceptual analysis of UIC from PHSM aimed at preventing SARS-CoV-2 spread in these settings. PHSM were classified using the WHO taxonomy and the CONSEQUENT framework ...

The value of school choice opportunities

In this paper, we study the house price effects of local school choice opportunities among public primary schools using a rare and large-scale reform that abolished binding catchment areas in North Rhine-Westphalia, the largest German state with 18 million inhabitants. To estimate the reform’s effect on valuations of houses, we compare houses with different local school choice sets, before and after ...

Menschen wollen eher differenzierte Schutzmaßnahmen statt Social-Media-Verbote (Interview mit Christian Hunkler)

Younger adults’nuclear and extended family relationships in Europe: A latent class analysis

The present study identifies and compares typical classes of relationship qualities in the nuclear and extended family ties of younger adults across nine European countries (Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, the United Kingdom, as well as the Nordic countries Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden). We used KINMATRIX data that were collected online in 2022-23 from an ego-centric perspective of ...

Persistent breeze from the winds of change: Partisan alignments of protest participants after democratic transition

By the early 1990s, millions across Central and Eastern Europe mobilized against socialist regimes. Despite their pivotal role in democratization, little is known about the long-term political trajectories of those who participated in these movements. Using three decades of intergenerational panel data from the former German Democratic Republic (GDR), I trace the partisan alignments of 1989 protest ...

Intergenerational persistence of subjective well-being: Evidence from the Japanese Household Panel Survey on parents and children

Do parents pass on their subjective well-being (SWB) to their children? This study uses long-term panel data from two generations in the Japan Household Panel Survey to examine intergenerational persistence of SWB. We find that rank–rank slopes for intergenerational persistence of happiness, self-reported general health, and mental health are 0.25, 0.22, and 0.13, respectively, which are intermediate ...

I.2.7 Operationalisierung von 'Flucht' in Sekundärdaten

Dieses Kapitel befasst sich mit der Operationalisierung des Konzepts ‚Flucht ‘bzw. der Zuschreibung ‚Geflüchteter ‘in Befragungs-und Registerdaten. Wir diskutieren die zwei gängigs ten Varianten: die Operationalisierung entlang rechtlicher Normen sowie die Operationalisierung entlang einer lebensweltlichen Konzeptionalisierung. Des Weiteren stellen wir ausgewählte For schungsdaten vor, in denen die ...

Immigrants’ recruitment chances in the German labor market: Evidence from large-scale survey experiments