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People sometimes choose to remain ignorant, even when information comes at low marginal costs and promises high utility. To investigate whether older adults enlist deliberate ignorance more than younger adults, potentially as an emotion-regulation tool, we presented a representative sample of 1,910 residents of Germany with 13 scenarios in which knowledge could result in substantial gains or losses. ...
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Psychology and Aging
36 (2021), 4, S. 407-414
| Ralph Hertwig, Jan K. Woike, Jürgen Schupp
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Numerous health insurers offer bonus programmes that score customers’ health behaviour, and car insurers offer telematics tariffs that score driving behaviour. In many countries, however, only a minority of customers participate in these programmes. In a population-representative survey of private households in Germany (N = 2,215), we study the acceptance of the criteria (features) on which the scoring ...
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PloS one
16 (2021), 4, e0250224, 14 S.
| Felix G. Rebitschek, Gerd Gigerenzer, Ariane Keitel, Sarah Sommer, Christian Groß, Gert G. Wagner
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We study how budget constraints affect effort provision in sequential elimination tournaments. Our main result is that the introduction of budget constraints has two opposing effects on the initial effort of the unconstrained contestants, and leads to a non-monotonicity of this effort. This implies that if the budget asymmetry is not too large, total first-stage effort from unconstrained contestants ...
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The Scandinavian Journal of Economics
123 (2021), 4, S. 1059-1087
| Malin Arve, Olga Chiappinelli
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This article highlights the potentials for migration research using the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), a longitudinal panel dataset of private households in Germany running since 1984. We provide a concise overview of its basic features, describe the survey contents and research potentials, and demonstrate opportunities to link external data sources to the SOEP thereby presenting its diverse ...
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Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
241 (2021), 4, S. 527–549
| Jannes Jacobsen, Magdalena Krieger, Felicitas Schikora, Jürgen Schupp
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Power systems with increasing shares of wind and solar power generation have higher capital costs and lower operational costs than power systems based on fossil fuels. This increases the importance of the financing costs for total system cost. We quantify how renewable energy support policies can affect the financing costs by addressing regulatory risk and facilitating hedging. We use interview data ...
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The Energy Journal
42 (2021), 4, S. 131-151
| Nils May, Karsten Neuhoff
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Less-educated persons have worse cardiovascular health. We compare the educational gradients in three disease-specific health measures (biomarkers, self-reported doctors’ diagnoses and cause-specific mortality) in order to compare their relevance in different stages of the disease process. We study 14,102 people aged 50–89 from the US Health Retirement Study (HRS) in the period 2006–17. We use six ...
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Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
12 (2021), 4, S. 591–607
| Rasmus Hoffmann, Hannes Kröger
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This paper links banking system development to the colonial and legal history of African countries. Based on a sample of 40 African countries from 2000 to 2018, our empirical findings show a significant dependence of current financial institutions on the inherited legal origin and the colonization type. Findings also reveal that current financial legal institutions are not major determinants of banking ...
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Journal of Institutional Economics
17 (2021), 4, S. 561–581
| Samuel Mutarindwa, Dorothea Schäfer, Andreas Stephan
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We evaluate the efficiency of electricity distribution operators (DSOs) as providers of local public infrastructure. In particular, we consider two types of efficiency, i.e., short-term (transient) and long-term (persistent). We apply the recently developed four-component stochastic frontier model, which allows identifying determinants of the two types of efficiency, after controlling for firm heterogeneity ...
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The Energy Journal
42 (2021), 4, 20 S.
| Astrid Cullmann, Oleg Badunenko, Subal C. Kumbhakar, Maria Nieswand
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Redistribution across individuals within the framework of a one-year period is an empirically intensely studied question. However, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer perspective, reducing the level of actual redistribution across individuals. In this paper, we investigate to what extent long-run redistribution diverges from annual redistribution ...
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The Scandinavian Journal of Economics
123 (2021), 4, S. 1116-1158
| Charlotte Bartels, Dirk Neumann
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Public opinion climates on immigrants are subject to certain dynamics. This study examines two mechanisms for such dynamics in Western EU member states for the 2002–2018 period. First, the impact of cohort replacement and, second, the impact of periodic threat perceptions, namely, changing macroeconomic conditions and shifts in immigration rates. To date, empirical research on anti-immigrant sentiments ...
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International Journal of Comparative Sociology
62 (2021), 4, S. 281–310
| Katja Schmidt