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We study the effects of reminders on people’s behavior in investment activities characterized by up-front costs and delayed benefits, such as getting an education and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. We conduct a field experiment and show that simple weekly reminders induce users of a gym to substantially increase their gym attendance over an extensive period. Users’ response to reminders is immediate ...
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Management Science
63 (2017), 9, S. 2915-2932
| Giacomo Calzolari, Mattia Nardotto
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Late-life well-being often shows steep deteriorations, but the contributing factors are not well understood, in part because data about people’s final year of life are scarce. Here, we draw from and test theoretical perspectives that health-related vulnerabilities undermine the experience and skills older adults typically use to maintain well-being (Charles, 2010). To do so, we examined how various ...
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Developmental Psychology
53 (2017), 9, S. 1795-1809
| Katharina Gerlach, Nilam Ram, Frank J. Infurna, Nina Vogel, Gert G. Wagner, Denis Gerstorf
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It is widely acknowledged that data sharing has great potential for scientific progress. However, so far making data available has little impact on a researcher’s reputation. Thus, data sharing can be conceptualized as a social dilemma. In the presented study we investigated the influence of the researcher's personality within the social dilemma of data sharing. The theoretical background was the appropriateness ...
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PloS one
12 (2017), 8, e0183216
| Stephanie Linek, Benedikt Fecher, Sascha Friesike, Marcel Hebing
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Informed decision making in medicine, defined as basing one’s decision on the best current medical evidence, requires both informed physicians and informed patients. In cancer screening, however, studies document that these prerequisites are not yet met. Many physicians do not know or understand the medical evidence behind screening tests, do not adequately counsel (asymptomatic) people on screening, ...
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PloS one
12 (2017), 8, e0183024
| Odette Wegwarth, Gert G. Wagner, Gerd Gigerenzer
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Frequent social interactions are strongly linked to positive affect, longevity, and good health. Although there has been extensive research on changes in the size of social networks over time, little attention has been given to the development of contact frequency across the life span. In this cohort-sequential longitudinal study, we examined intraindividual changes in the frequency of social contact ...
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Developmental Psychology
53 (2017), 8, S. 1571-1588
| Julia Sander, Jürgen Schupp, David Richter
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This study investigates social and ethnic differences in the use of early childhood education and care (ECEC) centers with different learning environments in an ECEC system with universal state-subsidized provision and low fees. Based on the German National Educational Panel Study—Kindergarten Cohort from 2011, we matched data on 587 groups in 253 ECEC centers with information on about 1,700 children ...
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Early Education and Development
28 (2017), 8, S. 1011-1034
| Birgit Becker, Pia S. Schober
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This paper assesses how far residential moves can result in improvement or deterioration of the housing and neighbourhood circumstances for families with young children. It uses data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study concentrating on the time between infancy and age 5, 2001 to 2006. First, we ask which families moved home and in what circumstances. We then examine how moving changed several aspects ...
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Population, Space and Place
23 (2017), 8, e2072
| Ludovica Gambaro, Heather Joshi, Ruth Lupton
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This article investigates the role of food self-provisioning for the intake of nutrients of households in Mongolia. We analyse nutritional outcomes within and across urban wage employees, rural households with small herds, and pastoralists with large herds. Food self-provisioning significantly affects dietary quality and quantity. Farming food crops improves the nutrient intake. In contrast, animal ...
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Journal of Development Studies
53 (2017) 8, S. 1303–1322
| Katharina Lehmann-Uschner, Kati Krähnert
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Open-ended questions have routinely been included in large-scale survey and panel studies, yet there is some perplexity about how to actually incorporate the answers to such questions into quantitative social science research. Tools developed recently in the domain of natural language processing offer a wide range of options for the automated analysis of such textual data, but their implementation ...
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PloS one
12 (2017), 7, e0182156
| Julia M. Rohrer, Martin Brümmer, Stefan C. Schmukle, Jan Goebel, Gert G. Wagner
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This study provides empirical evidence that the costs of austerity crucially depend on the level of private indebtedness. In particular, fiscal consolidations lead to severe contractions when implemented in high private-debt states. Contrary, fiscal consolidations have no significant effect on economic activity when private debt is low. These results are robust to alternative definitions of private-debt ...
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Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
49 (2017), 7, S. 1555-1585
| Mathias Klein