Objectives: We aimed at examining between-person and within-person associations across age trajectories of perceptual speed and loneliness in old age. Method: We applied multilevel models to 4 waves of data collected over 6 years from 1,491 participants of the Berlin Aging Study II (60–88 years at baseline, 50% women) to disentangle between-person and within-person associations across age trajectories ...
Die digitale Transformation verändert wirtschaftliche Abläufe auf tiefgreifende Art und Weise. Online-Plattformen bieten eine beispiellose Vielfalt an Produkten und Dienstleistungen an, während technologische Innovationen wie künstliche Intelligenz rasch entwickelt und in vielen Anwendungsbereichen eingesetzt werden. Gleichzeitig birgt der rasante Aufstieg digitaler Technologien zahlreiche Herausforderungen ...
Germany has emerged over centuries as a central European country marked by political shifts that have resulted in deep regional fragmentation. The polit ical burdens of two world wars led, in the late 1940s, to a separation of the country into the communist German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the western Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), a separation that ended with German (re)unification in ...
We study the mating patterns of non-heterosexual individuals, who represent a significant and increasing portion of the population, particularly among the youth. We estimate a multidimensional matching model of the marriage market where partner’s gender is endogenously chosen conditional on the agent’s sexual orientation, and is subject to trade-offs that depend on both the agents’ preferences and ...
