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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
This study uses administrative data on the universe of students in tertiary education in Germany and shows that university enrollment depends negatively on the local unemployment rate at high school graduation. This finding contradicts common evidence on countercyclical US undergraduate enrollment. Students' financial dependency and loan aversion suggest reduced parental income as dominant...
18.01.2023| Andreas Leibing
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Background Evidence on the relationship between socioeconomic position (SEP) and infections with SARS-CoV-2 is still limited as most of the available studies are ecological in nature. This is the first German nationwide study to examine differences in the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infections according to SEP at the individual level.Methods The ‘CORONA-MONITORING bundesweit’ (RKI-SOEP) study is a seroepidemiological ...
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Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
(2023), im Ersch. [online first: 2021-09]
| Jens Hoebel, Markus M Grabka, Carsten Schröder, Sebastian Haller, Hannelore Neuhauser, Benjamin Wachtler, Lars Schaade, Stefan Liebig, Claudia Hövener, Sabine Zinn
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Paid parental leave schemes have been shown to increase women’s employment rates but to decrease their wages in case of extended leave duration. In view of these potential trade-offs, many countries are discussing the optimal design of parental leave policies. We analyze the impact of a major parental leave reform on mothers’ long-term earnings. The 2007 German parental leave reform replaced a means-tested ...
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Labour Economics
80 (2022), 102296, 13 S.
| Corinna Frodermann, Katharina Wrohlich, Aline Zucco
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In this study, we argue that parents' class position may influence the type and timing of their offspring's investments in financial assets. These investments may facilitate net worth accumulation beyond direct transfers, contributing to the intergenerational reproduction of social positions. We test these expectations using retrospective life history and prospective panel data for 14 countries from ...
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Acta Sociologica
im Ersch. (2023), [online first: 2022-11-11]
| Philipp M. Lersch, Olaf Groh-Samberg
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Intergenerational relations have received close attention in the context of population aging and increased childcare provision by grandparents. However, few studies have investigated the psychological consequences of becoming a grandparent. In a preregistered test of grandparenthood as a developmental task in middle and older adulthood, we used representative panel data from the Netherlands (N = 563) ...
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European Journal of Personality
im Ersch. (2023), [Online first: 2022-08-16]
| Michael D. Krämer, Manon A. van Scheppingen, William J. Chopik, David Richter
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The COVID-19 pandemic and related closures of day care centres and schools significantly increased the amount of care work done by parents. There has been much speculation over whether the pandemic increased or decreased gender equality in parental care work. Based on representative data for Germany from spring 2020 and winter 2021 we present an empirical analysis that shows that although gender inequality ...
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German Economic Review
im Ersch. (2023), [Online first: 2022-07-28]
| Jonas Jessen, C. Katharina Spiess, Sevrin Waights, Katharina Wrohlich
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This paper considers an unavoidable feature of the school environment, class rank. What are the long-run effects of a student's ordinal rank in elementary school? Using administrative data on all public-school students in Texas, we show that students with a higher third-grade academic rank, conditional on achievement and classroom fixed effects, have higher subsequent test scores, are more likely to ...
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The Review of Economics and Statistics
(2023), im Ersch. [online first: 2021-10-15]
| Jeffrey T. Denning, Richard Murphy, Felix Weinhardt
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
16.11.2022| Judith Vornberger, University of Würzburg (JMU)
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Using a unique administrative dataset on Italians living abroad, we estimate the effect of parental migration on the education, employment and income opportunities of descendants in the host country. We compare Italian second-generation immigrants with Italians residing in Italy having similar observable characteristics, such as age, sex, Italian region of origin and...
04.05.2022| Chiara Malavasi, Centre for European Economic Research - ZEW, University of Mannheim
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Berlin Applied Micro Seminar (BAMS)
04.04.2022| Cristian Pop-Eleches (Columbia University)