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Refined Reverse Correlation: A Technique for Investigating the Power of Faces

People effortlessly and rapidly form a first impression of an individual’s personality based on their facial appearance. Forming an impression based on facial cues can have real world implications, for example, for the outcome of elections, courtroom decisions or work-place interviews. Research using traditional methods has, however, failed to identify the facial features that are related to specific ...

Identifying Stabilising Effects on Survey Based Life Satisfaction Using Quasi-maximum Likelihood Estimation

To which extent do happiness correlates contribute to the stability of life satisfaction? Which method is appropriate to provide a conclusive answer to this question? Based on life satisfaction data of the German SOEP, we show that by Negative Binomial quasi-maximum likelihood estimation statements can be made as to how far correlates of happiness contribute to the stabilisation of life satisfaction. ...

Occupational Licensing and the Gender Wage Gap

We use a unique survey of the EU labor force to investigate the relationship between occupational licensing and the gender wage gap. We find that the gender wage gap is canceled for licensed self-employed workers. However, this closure of the gender wage gap is not mirrored by significant changes in the gender gap in hours worked. Our results are robust using decomposition methods, quantile regressions, ...

Extending the Kitagawa–Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition approach to panel data

The Kitagawa–Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition approach has been widely used to attribute group-level differences in an outcome to differences in endowment, coefficients, and their interactions. The method has been implemented for Stata in the popular oaxaca command for cross-sectional analyses. In recent decades, however, research questions have been more often focused on the decomposition of group-based ...

Geflüchtete waren vor und während der Corona-Pandemie psychisch stark belastet: Interview

LGBTQ: Queere Menschen leiden häufiger an stressbedingten Erkrankungen

Depressionen, Angststörungen, Herzleiden: Queere Menschen haben laut einer Studie aufgrund von Diskriminierungserfahrungen stärker mit bestimmten Erkrankungen zu kämpfen.

Structural legacies and the motherhood penalty: How past societal contexts shape mothers’ employment outcomes in reunified Germany

Motherhood penalties vary strongly across societal contexts. While most studies that aim to explain such differences focus on institutions, a smaller literature refers to the influence of cultural norms or a complex interaction between the two. Empirically, however, it is yet unclear if such norms play a role and how they—jointly with institutions—contribute to motherhood penalties. We make use of ...

Interaktive Grafik: Wohnen Sie großzügig – oder beengt?

Ob Eigenheim oder Mietwohnung: So viel zu Hause waren wir noch nie – die einen allerdings auf viel, die anderen auf wenig Platz. Wie viel Wohnfläche haben Sie im Vergleich? Die interaktive Grafik zeigt es.

Geflüchtete sind auch in der Corona-Pandemie psychisch belastet und fühlen sich weiterhin sehr einsam

Unter den Folgen der Corona-Pandemie leiden viele Menschen. Geflüchtete gehören jedoch in vielen gesellschaftlichen Bereichen zu einer der am schlechtesten gestellten Gruppen. Sie leben überdurchschnittlich häufig in beengten Wohneinrichtungen wie Gemeinschaftsunterkünften und sind dadurch einem erhöhten Infektionsrisiko ausgesetzt. Gleichzeitig waren sie schon vor der Pandemie überproportional häufig ...

The Child Penalty: Implications of Parenthood on Labour Market Outcomes for Men and Women in Germany

Whilst gender inequality has been falling in the developed world, child-related gender inequality in pay has stayed constant. In this paper I use German panel data spanning across 33 years from 1984 until 2017 including over 50,000 individuals. The main contribution of this paper is the analysis of the effect of parenthood on women’s and men’s earnings using propensity score matching. I estimate the ...