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Refereed essays Web of Science
Social relationships are central to well-being because they fulfill social affiliation needs. To explain how social needs are regulated, theories describe daily-life processes among social desire, social contact, and affect. Still, these processes remain empirically underexplored because of their complexity. In this study, we estimated multivariate associations of social desire and affect with social ...
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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
(2026), im Ersch. [online first: 2026-01-08]
| Michael D. Krämer, Bernd Schaefer, Yannick Roos, David Richter, Cornelia Wrzus
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Health and well‐being in the family context can be affected by care giving arrangements. Following parental care and daycare, grandparents are the third most important care givers for children in many Western societies. Despite the relevance of grandparental care, there is little evidence on the causal effects of this care mode on the next generations' health and well‐being. In this paper, we fill ...
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Health Economics
(2026), im Ersch. [online first: 2025-12-17]
| Mara Barschkett, C. Katharina Spiess, Elena Ziege
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Refereed essays Web of Science
While socioeconomic status (SES) and personality have both been identified as relevant predictors of academic achievement, little is known about their possible interplay in predicting school performance. The present study used the latent moderated structural equations (LMS) method to investigate latent interactions between familial SES and parent-rated Big Five in a sample of German high school students ...
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European Journal of Personality
(2026), im Ersch. [online first: 2025-12-04]
| Emilija Meier-Faust, Annelie Schulze, Yannick Martin, Annabell Daniel, Susanne Bergann
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Objective: As social norms and relationship dynamics evolve, it is important to examine how transitions from singlehood to partnership, cohabitation, and marriage relate to well-being Method: Using data from two large panel studies in the UK and Germany (1984–2019), we identified N = 27,459 individuals who reported being single and living alone at least once. Analyses focused on a subset (N = 1103; ...
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Journal of Personality
(2026), im Ersch. [online first: 2025-08-18]
| Usama EL-Awad, Robert Eves, Justin Hachenberger, Theresa M. Entringer, Robin Goodwin, Anu Realo, Sakari Lemola
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Background: The first Corona Monitoring Nationwide (RKI-SOEP) study (October 2020−February 2021) found a low pre-vaccine SARS-CoV-2 antibody seroprevalence (2.1%) in the German adult population (≥ 18 years). Aim: The objective of this second RKI-SOEP (RKISOEP- 2) study in November 2021−March 2022 was to estimate the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2-specific antispike and/or anti-nucleocapsid (anti-N) IgG antibodies ...
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Eurosurveillance
30 (2025), 1, 2400037, 13 S.
| Elisabetta Mercuri, Lorenz Schmid, Christina Poethko-Müller, Martin Schlaud, Cânâ Kußmaul, Ana Ordonez-Cruickshank, Sebastian Haller, Ute Rexroth, Osamah Hamouda, Lars Schaade, Lothar H Wieler, Antje Gößwald, Angelika Schaffrath Rosario, Markus M. Grabka, Sabine Zinn, Hans Walter Steinhauer (et al.)
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
This paper examines the long-term impact of childhood exposure to aggregate shocks on intertemporal decision-making. Drawing on survey data from 80,000 individuals in 76 countries and exploiting within-country, cross-cohort variation in exposure to natural and man-made disasters, I show that such shocks during childhood significantly reduce patience in adulthood. The effects are concentrated...
26.11.2025| Alexander Bertermann, ifo Institute
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
We show that personal experiences affect high-stakes economic decisions among inventors. Using matched patent and survey data from French and German inventors linked to natural disaster records, we exploit exogenous variation in disaster exposure. Inventors personally affected by natural disasters subsequently produce 8.2 percent more green patents, primarily driven by emission-reducing mitigation...
10.12.2025| Marten Ritterrath, University of Cologne
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
(joint with Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Felix Weinhardt)
Health investments are vital for maintaining physical and mental well-being throughout working life, and their importance is amplified with rising retirement ages due to demographic aging. This is the first study to examine if a longer working life causally increases institutionalized health investments. We explore the impact of a German...
19.11.2025| Mia Teschner-Hofmann
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Many high-income economies strive to integrate recently immigrated refugees and asylum-seekers into their labor markets. We contribute to the discussion of relevant policy tools and use rich survey data that are matched to precise administrative records on refugee immigrants to Germany. We study the impact of occupational recognition decisions on refugee outcomes. Applying a difference-in...
08.10.2025| Regina T. Riphahn, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Health information about vaccinations is communicated via various sources of information and is crucial for vaccination decisions. Information sources such as interpersonal sources, traditional print and digital media as well as social media offer information about the risks and benefits of vaccination. During health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic was, some information sources provide hanging ...
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PloS one
20 (2025), 9, e0333268., 17 S.
| Susanne Jordan, Sarah Jane Böttger, Sabine Zinn