This paper studies the long-term impact of societal socialization on values using the example of doping behavior in sports. We apply the German Reunification Approach to the microcosm of Berlin and exploit its 40-year long division into a capitalist and a communist sector. We deliberately chose attitudes toward doping to test the impact of ideology on values since (i) post-1989 disappointed economic ...
The data from the SOEP-related study “Familien in Deutschland” (FiD, Families in Germany) are now available for the first three waves, spanning 2010–2012. Each year, more than 4,000 household interviews are carried out with single-parent families, families with more than two children, low-income families, and families with small children. The survey also includes more than 7,000 personal ...
We propose a noncausal autoregressive model with time-varying parameters, and apply it to U.S. postwar inflation. The model .fits the data well, and the results suggest that inflation persistence follows from future expectations. Persistence has declined in the early 1980.s and slightly increased again in the late 1990.s. Estimates of the new Keynesian Phillips curve indicate that current inflation ...
Welfare state interventions shape our life courses in almost all of their multiply linked domains. In this introduction, we sketch how cross-nationally comparative retrospective data can be fruitfully employed to better understand these links and the long-run effects of the welfare state at the same time. We briefly introduce SHARE, the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, and SHARELIFE, ...
In recent years the economic literature has begun to study non-cognitive skills in addition to cognitive skills in order to determine school or labor market success. Non-cognitive skills is a generic term enfolding traits that enable a person to communicate or interact with others, such as personality traits, socio-emotional behavior, locus of control, persistence, or motivation. Examining non-cognitive ...
The topic of this dissertation is cultural integration in general, and, in particular, intermarriage as one indicator of social proximity. In the first chapter several aspects of cultural integration of immigrants in Germany are considered, with cultural proximity measured as the distance between immigrants and natives with respect to those indicators. The analysis not only describes the status quo ...
This thesis analyzes the determinants of university enrollment and successful completion of university studies. The main questions analyzed are: What are the enrollment effects of different tuition fee schemes? How does taxation of future earnings affect enrollment? What is the impact of student aid on the success of studies? To answer the first two questions, I develop a structural university enrollment ...
