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Several empirical papers suggest that individuals improve health-related behaviors in response to adverse shocks to physical health. However, little evidence exists regarding the questions of (i) how long-lasting these behavioral responses are and (ii) whether individuals respond similarly to mental health shocks. Using individual-level survey data from Germany and combining regression augmented inverse-probability ...
In:
The European Journal of Health Economics
26 (2025), 8, 1293–1332
| Christian Bünnings, Irina Simankova, Harald Tauchmann
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This article analyses how hiring older workers adjusts to demographic change in the labour force by using information from more than 500,000 firms in Germany. We find robust evidence that firms faced with an ageing labour market hire relatively more older workers. However, the pace of this adjustment is relatively slow, particularly when ageing happens outside the firm. The tendency to employ older ...
In:
Empirical Economics
68 (2025), 1, 139–163
| Fabian Busch, Robert Fenge, Carsten Ochsen
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We examine how labor market disruptions following childbirth relate to intra-household consumption inequality in the long run. Novel survey data from Germany shows that women less educated than their partners are more likely to report child-related career interruptions and receive a smaller share of household consumption, relative to women more educated than their spouses. Moreover, conditioning on ...
In:
Economics Letters
257 (2025), 112650
| Paula Calvo, Ilse Lindenlaub, Lindsey Uniat
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The empirical literature on the relationship between age and well-being is characterised by an unusually persistent series of disagreements over data, method, and interpretation. Previous attempts to advance the discussion have involved different scholars’ specific prescriptions, which were often in near total contradiction to other scholars’ attempts to do the same. Instead, we use specification curve ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2025,
(SOEPpapers 1235)
| Kausik Chaudhuri, Alan Piper
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Personality traits have been confirmed to be associated with mental health, but their influence on the trajectories of depressive symptoms among middle-aged and older adults in China is not well understood. This study seeks to identify distinct trajectories of depressive symptoms and explore their relationship with the Big Five personality traits in China.
In:
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
(2025),
| Weichao Chen, Wanren Wang, Xiaoyan Wang
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This paper examines the stability of self-control over time using nationally-representative longitudinal data from Australia. We track the same individuals between 2019 and 2023, a period encompassing one of the most disruptive global crisis in recent history: the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite these extraordinary circumstances, self-control remained remarkably stable: its mean and distribution were unchanged, ...
Bonn:
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA),
2025,
(IZA DP No. 18270)
| Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Anthony Lepinteur, Giorgia Menta
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Since the turn of the twenty-first century, subnational regions have become increasingly polarized with regard to anti-immigration attitudes. However, the reasons behind geographical changes over time are unclear. We argue that regional labor market risks are a key and overlooked factor driving residential choices and subsequent attitudinal change. We rely on georeferenced panel data from the German ...
In:
British Journal of Political Science
55 (2025),
| Denis Cohen, Sergi Pardos-Prado
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The rise of the knowledge economy draws workers towards concentrated skill clusters and creates political conflicts between urban high-opportunity areas and rural and suburban areas of lower dynamism. We advance the existing literature with a dynamic perspective by studying the political consequences of a structural pull into destinations that are typically more progressive than the places of origin. ...
In:
British Journal of Political Science
55 (2025),
| Valentina Consiglio, Thomas Kurer
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While the structural disadvantage and discrimination migrants face are well-documented, migrants’ perceptions of meritocracy and equality of opportunity remain underexplored. This study addresses this gap using a mixed-methods approach, combining data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), the European Social Survey (ESS), and in-depth qualitative interviews and group discussions (N = 47). Quantitative ...
OSF Preprints:
2026,
| Margherita Cusmano
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Sakibphobia—proposed by S M Nazmuz Sakib—posits an irrational aversion, resentment, and discriminatory bias toward people perceived as “more successful”. We empirically position this theory within established social–psychological constructs: malicious vs. benign envy (BeMaS), social comparison orientation (INCOM), and downstream counterproductive social behaviors (e.g., workplace incivility). We identify ...
In:
Advances in Sociology, Psychology & Human Behavior
2 (2026), 1, 1–5
| Susmita Das, Farhana Siddiqui, Nafija Alam Omi, Israth Jahan Sonda, Lubbabah Sugra Siddiqi Tamanna, Mousumi Begum