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The aim of this study is to estimate the causal effect of family size on the proximity between older mothers and adult children by using a large administrative data set from Sweden. Our main results show that adult children in Sweden are not constrained by sibship size in choosing where to live: for families with more than one child, sibship size does not affect child-mother proximity. For aging parents, ...
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Demography
50 (2013), 3, S. 903-931
| Helena Holmlund, Helmut Rainer, Thomas Siedler
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Studies on health effects of unemployment usually neglect spillover effects on spouses. This study specifically investigates the effect of an individual's unemployment on the mental health of their spouse. In order to allow for causal interpretation of the estimates, it focuses on plant closure as entry into unemployment, and combines difference-in-difference and matching based on entropy balancing ...
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Journal of Health Economics
32 (2013), 3, S. 546-558
| Jan Marcus
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We estimate a model of intertemporal male labor supply behavior which explicitly accounts for the effect of income taxation and the transfer system. Moreover, we model the demand-side driven rationing risk that prevents agents from choosing the optimal labor supply state. Our results show that elasticities derived in an unconstrained pure choice model are significantly higher compared to a model with ...
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Empirical Economics
44 (2013), 2, S. 661-683
| Peter Haan, Arne Uhlendorff
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Using population representative survey data fromthe German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and administrative pension records from the Statutory Pension Insurance, the authors compare four statisticalmatching techniques to complement survey information on net worth with social security wealth (SSW) information from the administrative records. The unique properties of the linked. - data allow for a straight ...
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Sociological Methods & Research
42 (2013), 2, S. 192-224
| Anika Rasner, Joachim R. Frick, Markus M. Grabka
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In this paper we report the use of the open source Spatiotemporal Epidemiological Modeler (STEM, www.eclipse.org/stem) to compare three basic models for seasonal influenza transmission. The models are designed to test for possible differences between the seasonal transmission of influenza A and B. Model 1 assumes that the seasonality and magnitude of transmission do not vary between influenza A and ...
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Journal of Transport Economics and Policy
47 (2013), 2, S. 191-206
| Chris Nash, Jan-Eric Nilsson, Heike Link
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Two studies investigated the overpowering hypothesis as a possible explanation for the currently inconclusive empirical picture on age differences in affective responding to unpleasant events. The overpowering hypothesis predicts that age differences in affective responding are particularly evident in highly resource-demanding situations that overtax older adults' capacities. In Study 1, we used a ...
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Developmental Psychology
49 (2013), 2, S. 384-397
| Cornelia Wrzus, Viktor Müller, Gert G. Wagner, Ulman Lindenberger, Michaela Riediger
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It is increasingly observable that competitors in different industries share customer data, which can be used for targeted pricing. We propose a modified Hotelling model with two-dimensional consumer heterogeneity to analyze the incentives for such sharing and its ensuing welfare effects. We show that these incentives depend on the type of customer data and on consumer heterogeneity in the strength ...
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International Journal of Industrial Organization
31 (2013), 2, S. 131-144
| Nicola Jentzsch, Geza Sapi, Irina Suleymanova
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Research usually finds a positive size-efficiency relationship, but few studies focus on sectors dominated by small and medium-sized firms (SMEs). This paper fills this gap by analyzing this relationship in the German mechanical engineering industry sector, which is both successful and increasingly dominated by SMEs. The analysis, using a large and representative dataset, finds that small and large ...
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Small Business Economics
40 (2013), 2, S. 335-350
| Alexander Schiersch
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Financial support for families with children implies inherent trade-offs some of which are less obvious than others. In the end these trade-offs determine the effectiveness of policy with respect to the material situation of families and employment of their parents. We analyse several kinds of trade-offs involved using a careful selection of potential changes to the system of financial support for ...
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Baltic Journal of Economics
13 (2013) 2, S. 59-83
| Michal Myck, Anna Kurowska, Michal Kundera
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Mit der Einführung des Elterngeldes im Jahr 2007 beabsichtigte die Bundesregierung die Bedingungen für Familien mit jungen Kindern zu verbessern. Die neue familienpolitische Leistung hatte mehrere Ziele, von denen in diesem Beitrag drei zentrale untersucht werden: Zum Ersten sollte für Eltern in der Frühphase der Elternschaft ein Schonraum geschaffen werden. Zum Zweiten ist es ein erklärtes Ziel des ...
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Zeitschrift für Familienforschung
25 (2013), 2, S. 193-211
| Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, C. Katharina Spieß, Katharina Wrohlich