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Purpose: To describe the major findings in the literature regarding associations between biological and genetic factors and social functioning, paying special attention to: (1) heritability studies on social functioning and related concepts; (2) hypothesized biological pathways and genetic variants that could be involved in social functioning, and (3) the implications of these results for quality-of-life ...
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Quality of Life Research
22 (2013), 6, S. 1189-1200
| Juan R. Ordonana, Maike Bartels, Dorret I. Boomsma, David Cella, Miriam Mosing, Joao R. Oliveira, Donald L. Patrick, Ruut Veenhoven, Gert G. Wagner, Mirjam A.G. Sprangers
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Much of the work published in Defence and Peace Economics (DPE) significantly contributes to our understanding of the economics of conflict. Analyzing the second decade of its existence, Arce and Kollias (2010) showed that over time, the emphasis of work in DPE has shifted significantly. One rising field examines the consequences of conflict. Related to this, in 2011, DIW Berlin hosted a conference ...
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Defence & Peace Economics
24 (2013), 6, S. 497-501
| Tilman Brück, Olaf J. de Groot
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Objectives. Older adults more often complain about sleep disturbances compared with younger adults. However, it is not clear whether there is still a decline of sleep quality after age 60 and whether changes in sleep quality in old age are mere reflections of impaired physical health or whether they represent a normative age-dependent development. - Method. Subjective sleep quality and perceived physical ...
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The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences
68 (2013), 5, S. 721-729
| Sakari Lemola, David Richter
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In 1988 Basil Moore published his book Horizontalists and Verticalists: The Macroeconomics of Credit Money, which this year celebrates its 25th birthday. We discuss this book from today's perspective, and in particular whether Moore's main assertions have been validated or rejected by the development of central bank practice and academic monetary economics. We find that the book has impressively stood ...
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Review of Keynesian Economics
1 (2013), 4, S. 383-390
| Ulrich Bindseil, Philipp König
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Various studies interpret the positive correlation between income risk and wealth as evidence of significant precautionary savings. However, these high estimates emerge from pooling non-entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs, without controlling for heterogeneity. This article provides evidence for Germany based on representative panel data that includes private wealth balance sheets. Entrepreneurs, who face ...
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Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
75 (2013), 4, S. 528¿555
| Frank M. Fossen, Davud Rostam-Afschar
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This paper estimates the impact of competition policy on total factor productivity (TFP) growth for 22 industries in 12 OECD countries over 1995-2005. We find a positive and significanteffect of competition policy as measured by newly created indexes. We provide results based on instrumental variables estimators and heterogeneous effects to support the causal nature of the established link. The effect ...
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The Review of Economics and Statistics
95 (2013), 4, S. 1324-1336
| Paolo Buccirossi, Lorenzo Ciari, Tomaso Duso, Giancarlo Spagnolo, Cristiana Vitale
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We examine how children aged zero to 6 years with migration background and those who live with lone parents, or on low income or social assistance differ from other less disadvantaged groups in their use of formal ECEC services and non-formal education activities. Previous studies have shown that attendance rates are lower for children in some of these groups, who might benefit disproportionately from ...
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Child Indicators Research
6 (2013), 4, S. 709-735
| Pia S. Schober, C. Katharina Spieß
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We theorize how social policy affects marital stability vis-à-vis macro and micro effects of wives' employment on divorce risk in 11 Western countries. Correlations among 1990s aggregate data on marriage, divorce, and wives' employment rates, along with attitudinal and social policy information, seem to support specialization hypotheses that divorce rates are higher where more wives are employed and ...
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Social Politics
20 (2013), 4, S. 482-509
| Lynn Prince Cooke, Jani Erola, Marie Evertsson, Michael Gähler, J. Härkönen, Belinda Hewitt, M. Jalovaara, Man-Yee Kan, T. H. Lyngstad, L. Mencarini, J.-F. Mignot, D. Mortelmans, A. Poortman, Christian Schmitt, H. Trappe
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In this paper the German congestion management regime is analyzed and future congestion management costs are assessed given a higher share of intermittent renewable generation. In this context, cost-based re-dispatching of power plants and technical flexibility through topology optimization are considered as market-based and technical congestion management methods. To replicate the current market regime ...
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The Energy Journal
34 (2013), 4, S. 55-78
| Friedrich Kunz
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It is emphasized that the shocks in structural vector autoregressions are only identified up to sign and it is pointed out that this feature can result in very misleading confidence intervals for impulse responses if simulation methods such as Bayesian or bootstrap methods are used. The confidence intervals heavily depend on which variable is used for fixing the signs of the responses. In particular, ...
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Statistical Papers
54 (2013), 4, S. 1131-1145
| Helmut Lütkepohl