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DIW Economic Bulletin 12 / 2014
Over the past 50 years, Colombian society has experienced a violent conflict between government forces and right-wing paramilitary groups on the one hand, and left-wing guerrilla groups on the other. Moreover, a high proportion of women in Colombia are victims of domestic violence. The present study examines whether there is a correlation between the conflict and violence against women. The findings ...
2014| Johannes Rieckmann
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DIW Economic Bulletin 12 / 2014
Calls for democratization have been a new landmark of the current decade. Protestations and revolutions demanding political change and democratic reforms have spread across most of the Middle East and North Africa. Yet, the origins and the determinants of success of these movements remain unclear to researchers and policy makers. Historically higher educational attainment has undeniably been associated ...
2014| Ghassan Baliki, Florian Szücs
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BeNA - Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung
Abstract: A substantial number of studies establish a significant empirical connection between occupational choice and (non-cognitive) personality traits. Yet, there are no formal behavioral models integrating non-cognitive traits into the decision process of entrepreneurs that are capable to explain entry and survival simultaneously. This paper attempts to close this gap. With the combined...
03.12.2014| Alexander Konon
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Employment rates of mothers with young children have increased in the past years. Similar developments can be found for the use of childcare facilities and household-related services. This paper discusses the relationship between these variables with special focus on their dynamic dependencies over time. Using data of the German Socio-Economic Panel, the effects of the use household services and...
03.12.2014| Carsten Haenisch, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
The thoughts that an individual has about the future contribute substantially to their life satisfaction in a positive or negative direction. This is a result found via five different methods, some of which control for personality and disposition and the potential endogeneity of thoughts and life satisfaction. The reduction in life satisfaction experienced by individuals who report being...
05.12.2014| Alan Piper, University of Flensburg
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Despite numerous studies on skill development, we know little about the effects of extracurricular music activities on cognitive and non-cognitive skills. This study examines how music training during childhood and youth affects the development of cognitive skills, school grades, personality, time use and ambition using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Our findings suggest that adolescents ...
In:
Economics of Education Review
44 (2015), S. 56–82
| Adrian Hille, Jürgen Schupp
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Personnel news
Ingrid Tucci accepted her appointment to a junior professorship for "The Sociology of Migration from Comparative Perspective." Marco Giesselmann accepted his appointment to a junior professorship for "Quantitative Methods of Empirical Social Research".
Both will be teaching at the Faculty of Sociology of the University of Bielefeld starting in the winter semester 2014/2015. Both positions were created ...
28.11.2014
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DIW Discussion Papers 1427 / 2014
The Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) provides information about household wealth (real and financial assets as well as liabilities) from 15 Euro‐countries after the financial crisis of 2007/8. The survey will be the central dataset in this topic in the future. However, several aspects point to potential methodological constraints regarding crosscountry comparability. Therefore the aim ...
2014| Anita Tiefensee, Markus M. Grabka
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Externe Working Papers
While most studies on wealth inequality focus on the inequality between households, this paper examines the distribution of wealth within couples. For this purpose, we make use of unique individual level micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). In married and cohabiting couples, men have, on average, 33,000 Euro more net worth than women. We look at five different sets of factors (demographics, ...
Esch-sur-Alzette:
CEPS/INSTEAD,
2013,
26 S.
(Working Papers / CEPS/INSTEAD ; 2013-02)
| Markus M. Grabka, Jan Marcus, Eva Sierminska
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Workshop
There is a long tradition of mixed methods research in the social sciences: “Marienthal: The Sociography of an Unemployed Community” by Marie Jahoda, Paul Lazarsfeld et al. (1933) was pioneering in this regard as it combined various types of data. Today, mixedmethods research and triangulation studies are popular in social scientific fields such as sociology, education sciences, and...
09.02.2015