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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Many couples face a trade-off between advancing one spouse’s career or the other’s. We study this trade-off using administrative data from Germany and Sweden. We first conduct an event-study analysis of couples moving across commuting zones and find that relocation increases men’s earnings more than women’s, with strikingly similar patterns in Germany and Sweden. Using a sample of mass layoff...
31.01.2025| Marie Paul, University of Duisburg-Essen
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Refereed essays Web of Science
By the end of the Second World War, an estimated 20% of the West German housing stock had been destroyed. Building on a theoretical life-cycle model, this paper examines the persistent consequences of the war for individual wealth across generations. As our empirical basis, we link a unique historical dataset on the levels of wartime destruction in 1739 West German cities with micro data on individual ...
In:
Journal of Economic Growth
(2025), im Ersch. [online first: 2024-05-17]
| Christoph Halbmeier, Carsten Schröder
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Refereed essays Web of Science
In:
Journal of Labor Economics
(2025) im Ersch.
| Wolfgang Frimmel, Martin Halla, Jörg Paetzold, Julia Schmieder
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Refereed essays Web of Science
How do life events affect life satisfaction? Previous studies focused on a single event or separate analyses of several events. However, life events are often grouped non-randomly over the lifespan, occur in close succession, and are causally linked, raising the question of how to best analyze them jointly. Here, we used representative German data (SOEP; N = 40,121individuals; n = 41,402 event occurrences) ...
In:
European Journal of Personality
39 (2025), 1, S. 3-23
| Michael D. Krämer, Julia M. Rohrer, Richard E. Lucas, David Richter
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This paper analyses trends in mortality inequality in 330 Chilean communes from 1990 to 2010 for different age groups and both genders. Chile had substantial inequalities in local-level mortality rates in 1990 but by 2010 these disparities had significantly decreased, especially among infants, children and the elderly. The only exception was Chilean men aged 20–39, for whom inequality in mortality ...
In:
Fiscal Studies
(2025), im Ersch. [online first: 2024-09-07]
| Gedeão Locks
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Refereed essays Web of Science
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 ...
In:
Social Policy and Administration
(2025), im Ersch. [online first: 2024-07-17]
| Ludovica Gambaro, Clara Schäper, C. Katharina Spiess
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09.12.2024
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Typically, poverty risk is assessed at the household level, neglecting within-couple income inequality and the role of individual characteristics in vulnerability to income poverty. This paper uses SOEP data and a quasi-experimental event study design to investigate poverty dynamics within couples over an 8-year period around the first birth. It follows partnered women (N=1,174) and men (N=1,137)...
13.11.2024| Christina Siegert, University of Vienna
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
The newspaper coverage of CEOs is highly gendered with more family-related language used in newspaper articles on female than male company leaders. In a randomized online experiment, we ask whether this stereotypical representation affects readers' beliefs about CEO competence, firm performance, and resulting financial decision-making. We show participants articles consisting of elements from real...
23.10.2024| Lavinia Kinne and Virginia Sondergeld
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
This paper analyses the impact of the modernization of the Swiss marital law in the 1980s on married women's labour force participation in Switzerland. The reform of the law comprised multiple measures to foster the equality between husband and wife within the marriage. The Swiss people voted on the reform in a referendum in 1985, accepting the new marital law. Hence at the time of the vote, it...
16.07.2024| Lea Weigand, University of Zurich