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We present new evidence concerning the evolution of adult height across Spanish regions for the 1950-1980 male and female birth cohorts, using the augmented sample of the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) for Spain. This augmented sample, available only for the year 2000, contains self-reported height data representative at the Autonomous Community level. The average heights of these two sets ...
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Economics and Human Biology
10 (2012), 3, S. 264-275
| Climent Quintana-Domeque, Carlos Bozzoli, Mariano Bosch
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This study used data from the German Socio-economic Panel to examine gender differences in the extent to which self-reported subjective well-being was associated with occupying a high-level managerial position in the labour market,compared with employment in non-leadership, non-high-level managerial positions, unemployment, and non-labour market participation. Our results indicated that a clear hierarchy ...
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Social Indicators Research
107 (2012), 3, S. 449-463
| Eileen Trzcinski, Elke Holst
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We conduct a cross-national econometric analysis of intra-family location and caregiving patterns. Using European data, we first assess, from an international perspective, the relationship between family structure and the geographic proximity between adult children and their parents. We then examine whether differences in family structure are related to the amount of informal care adult children provide ...
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Population and Development Review
38 (2012), 2, S. 337-351
| Helmut Rainer, Thomas Siedler
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This article studies repeat or circular migration between the host and home countries using panel data for Germany, distinguishing between factors generating single moves, circular migration, and absorption. Migrants are more likely to leave early after their first arrival in Germany, and when they have social and familial bonds in the home country, but less likely when they have a job in Germany and ...
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International Migration Review
46 (2012), 2, S. 362-388
| Amelie Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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If trade unions provide only their members with insurance against income variations, as a private good, this insurance will provide a stronger incentive for more risk-averse employees to become union members. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and various direct measures of individual risk attitudes, we find robust evidence of a positive relationship between risk aversion and the ...
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The Scandinavian Journal of Economics
114 (2012), 2, S. 275-295
| Laszlo Goerke, Markus Pannenberg
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This study explored reciprocal associations between paternal child-care involvement and relationship quality by following British couples from the birth of a child until he or she reached school age. It extends the literature by distinguishing between paternal engagement in absolute terms and relative to the mother and by considering relationship quality reports of mothers and fathers and family breakdown. ...
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Journal of Marriage and Family
74 (2012), 2, S. 281-296
| Pia S. Schober
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The Anti-trafficking Protocol reflects the interests of the major countries. Due to the high costs of compliance, countries will strategically select those obligations that will satisfy the major countries most efficiently with lower costs of compliance. Among the three main obligations of the Protocol - prevention, protection and prosecution - we predict that ratification leads to the strongest effect ...
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European Journal of Political Economy
28 (2012), 2, S. 249-265
| Seo-Young Cho, Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati
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This paper analyzes naming behavior in Germany in the context of rapid social change. It begins with an overview of general developments in naming in Germany over the last one hundred years, based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), which supplies us with almost 45,000 datasets. The paper focuses on the periods of World War II and the Cold War since we conclude that general developments ...
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Names: A Journal of Onomastics
60 (2012), 2, S. 74-89
| Anja Bruhn, Denis Huschka, Gert G. Wagner
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We use a series of field experiments in rural Burundi to examine the impact of exposure to conflict on social, risk, and time preferences. We find that conflict affects behavior: individuals exposed to violence display more altruistic behavior towards their neighbors, are more risk-seeking, and have higher discount rates. Large adverse shocks can thus alter savings and investments decisions, and potentially ...
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The American Economic Review
102 (2012), 2, S. 941-964
| Maarten J. Voors, Eleonora E. M. Nillesen, Philip Verwimp, Erwin H. Bulte, Robert Lensink, Daan P. van Soest
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Findings from many behavioral genetic studies utilizing the classical twin design suggest that genetic and non-shared environmental effects play a significant role in human personality traits. This study focuses on the methodological advantages of extending the sampling frame to include multiple dyads of relatives. We investigated the sensitivity of heritability estimates to the inclusion of sibling ...
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Behavior Genetics
42 (2012), 2, S. 221-233
| Elisabeth Hahn, Frank M. Spinath, Thomas Siedler, Gert G. Wagner, Jürgen Schupp, Christian Kandler