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Life-span psychological research has long been interested in the contextual embeddedness of individual development. To examine whether and how regional variables relate to between-person disparities in the progression of late-life well-being, we applied three-level growth curve models to 24-year longitudinal data from deceased participants of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (N = 3,427; age at ...
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Psychology and Aging
25 (2010), 3, S. 661-676
| Denis Gerstorf, Nilam Ram, Jan Goebel, Jürgen Schupp, Ulman Lindenberger, Gert G. Wagner
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We consider two different approaches to describe the formation of social networks under mutual consent and costly communication. First, we consider a network-based approach; in particular Jackson-Wolinsky's concept of pairwise stability. Next, we discuss a non-cooperative game-theoretic approach, through a refinement of the Nash equilibria of Myerson's consent game. This refinement, denoted as monadic ...
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Mathematical Social Sciences
60 (2010), 3, S. 181-185
| Robert P. Gilles, Sudipta Sarangi
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This paper investigates the impact of governance structure on firm performance (i.e., retail prices) using a database of 765 German water suppliers. Controlling for scale economies as well as technical and structural characteristics, we find that private sector participation is accompanied with higher retail prices. Furthermore, Eastern states on average feature higher prices mirroring significant ...
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Utilities Policy
18 (2010), 3, S. 154-162
| Sophia Rüster, Michael Zschille
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The real interest parity (RIP) condition combines two cornerstones in international finance, uncovered interest parity (UIP) and ex ante purchasing power parity (PPP). The extent of deviation from RIP is therefore an indicator of the lack of product and financial market integration. This paper investigates whether the nominal exchange rate regime has an impact on RIP. The analysis is based on 15 annual ...
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North American Journal of Economics and Finance
21 (2010), 3, S. 274-285
| Christian Dreger
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This study deals with the impact of socioeconomic conditions and social integration into a local neighborhood on individual life satisfaction in Germany. While the majority of ecological studies to date are based on very broad neighborhood concepts, using large research units for defining neighborhood the present study contains micro-geographic information on a representative sample of private households ...
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Social Indicators Research
96 (2010), 3, S. 497-513
| Jörg Dittmann, Jan Goebel
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Most empirical distributional studies of well-being in developed countries rely on distributions of disposable income. From a theoretical point of view this practice is contentious since a household's command over resources is determined not only by its spending power over commodities it can buy in the market but also on resources available to the household members through non-market mechanisms such ...
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Journal of Housing Economics
19 (2010), 3, S. 167-179
| Joachim R. Frick, Markus M. Grabka, Timothy M. Smeeding, Panos Tsakloglou
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We perform a comparative analysis of regional growth and convergence in China, Russia and India over the period 1993-2003 by means of non-parametric methods and kernel density estimates. Our results indicate that wealthy regions were largely responsible for the rapid growth in all three countries. For China and India, capital dissipation was identified as the major determinant of regional growth. In ...
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Economics of Transition
18 (2010), 3, S. 539-570
| Oleg Badunenko, Kiril Tochkov
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Complementing prior research on income and educational mobility, we examine the intergenerational transmission of cognitive abilities. We find that individuals' cognitive skills are positively related to their parents' abilities, despite controlling for educational attainment and family background. Differentiating between mothers' and fathers' IQ transmission, we find different effects on the cognition ...
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Journal of Population Economics
23 (2010), 3, S. 1105-1132
| Silke Anger, Guido Heineck
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How individual wages change with time is one of the crucial determinants of labour market decisions including the timing of retirement. The focus of this paper is the relationship between age and wages with special attention given to individuals nearing retirement. The analysis is presented in a comparative context for Britain and Germany looking at two longitudinal data sets (BHPS and SOEP, respectively) ...
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Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
72 (2010), 3, S. 282-306
| Michal Myck
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This paper analyzes the early research performance of PhD graduates in labor economics, addressing the following questions: Are there major productivity differences between graduates from American and European institutions? If so, how relevant is the quality of the training received (i.e. ranking of institution and supervisor) and the research environment inthe subsequent job placement institution? ...
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Scientometrics
84 (2010), 3, S. 621-637
| Ana Rute Cardoso, Paulo Guimarães, Klaus F. Zimmermann