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Economic and social scientists are increasingly interested in historical data, but many relevant sources are still available in analog form, limiting accessibility and research potential. This article introduces the WBdigital database, which aims to improve this situation. The database provides digital access to the DIW Wochenbericht (1928–1968), including its economic texts and time series data covering ...
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Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
245 (2025), 4-5, S. 577–588
| Marcus Schöps, Enrico Wedekind, Tobias Gebel, Andreas O. Kempf, Peter Löwe, Luca Kohlhepp, Alexander Gehrke, Frank Puppe
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This article addressed the critical issue of citizens’ attitudes toward law enforcement, focusing on motivational postures toward the police (i.e., the psychological dispositions that individuals maintain toward the police). The study contributes by providing the first validated motivational postures scale toward the police in Spanish. It responds to a gap in research on motivational postures within ...
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Peace and Conflict
31 (2025), 3, S. 285-298
| Monica M. Gerber, Luciano Sáez-Fuentealba, Joaquín Bahamondes, Ana Figueiredo, Cristóbal Moya, Bruno Rojas, Macarena Orchard, Nicolás Tobar Jorquera
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Research Question/Issue: The introduction of gender quotas on corporate boards can disrupt the status quo, resulting in externalities that affect women's advancement within the company. This study investigates whether boardroom quotas contribute to promoting women further up the corporate ladder and facilitate access to a broader spectrum of positions. Research Findings/Insights: Using legislative ...
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Corporate Governance
33 (2025), 3, S. 407-435
| Anna Gibert, Alexandra Fedorets
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Fast online surveys without sampling frames are becoming increasingly important in survey research. Their recruitment methods result in non-probability samples. As the mechanism of data generation is always unknown in such samples, the problem of non-ignorability arises making vgeneralisation of calculated statistics to the population of interest highly questionable. Sensitivity analyses provide a ...
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International Statistical Review
93 (2025), 3, S. 499-516
| Angelina Hammon, Sabine Zinn
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Informal childcare care by grandparents, other relatives or friends is an important source of support in many Western countries, including Germany. Yet the role of this type of care is often overlooked in accounts of social policies supporting families with children, which tend to focus on formal childcare. This article examines whether the large formal childcare expansion occurring in Germany in the ...
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Social Policy and Administration
59 (2025), 3, S. 383-398
| Ludovica Gambaro, Clara Schäper, C. Katharina Spiess
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The low degree of stock market participation (SMP) is one of the big puzzles in finance. Numerous determinants have been proposed. We put these determinants into a structure that is derived from a standard static portfolio model. Then we discuss arguments put forward regarding specific SMP determinants and the empirical evidence that has been provided. The focus of our survey is on the identification ...
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Journal of Economic Surveys
39 (2025), 3, S. 953-979
| Lukas Menkhoff, Jannis Westermann
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We estimate the impact of parental health on adult children’s labor market out-
comes. We focus on health shocks that increase care dependency abruptly. Our
estimation strategy exploits the variation in the timing of shocks across treated
families. Empirical results based on administrative data show a significant negative
impact on the labor market activities of children. This effect is more pronounced
for ...
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Journal of Labor Economics
43 (2025) 3, S. 803-841
| Wolfgang Frimmel, Martin Halla, Jörg Paetzold, Julia Schmieder
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This study explores the effect of frequent green-bond issuance on a firm's financing costs. Using a sample of listed Swedish real estate companies issuing a total of 1074 bonds over the period from 2011 to 2021, difference-in-differences analyses and instrumental variable estimations are applied to identify the causal impact of frequent green-bond vis-à-vis frequent non-green-bond issuance on a firm's ...
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Business Strategy and the Environment
34 (2025), 2, S. 2436-2448
| Aleksandar Petreski, Dorothea Schäfer, Andreas Stephan
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We show that in school systems with grade retention or redshirting birth cohort size is negatively related to the grade-level share of students who are too old for their grade. This compositional effect gives rise to an upward bias in estimates of class size effects based on commonly used research designs exploiting within-school variation in birth cohort size. Using data for all primary schools in ...
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Journal of Human Resources
60 (2025), 2, S. 578-606
| Maximilian Bach, Stephan Sievert
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Understanding widowhood duration is essential for individuals and effective widow support policies, yet widowhood duration remains an understudied topic. In this article, we provide a quantitative estimation of the impact of three primary determinants of expected widowhood duration at age 60 in a unified framework: (1) the degree of overlap between male and female mortality distributions, (2) the spousal ...
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Demography
62 (2025), 2, S. 467–488
| Julie Tréguier, Carole Bonnet, Didier Blanchet