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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Research on parental school choice provides strong evidence of so-called ‘white flight’ – that ethnic majority parents avoid choosing a local school if it contains large numbers of ethnic minority students. In this study, we examine such segregating choices in a formally stratified school system. Theoretically, we argue that segregating choices are less common in an educational setting where...
08.05.2024| Hanno Kruse, University of Bonn
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
We investigate if and how adverse life events – early widowhood, divorce, disability, job loss - trigger informal insurance responses in the form of intervivos gifts. Drawing from Dutch register data, we construct comprehensive panels comprising individuals undergoing such shocks in the period 2011-2017, and we analyse the patterns of gift receipt surrounding these events. We run separate event...
24.04.2024| Mathis Sansu, Paris-Panthéon-Assas University and French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED)
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Inexpensive and time-efficient web surveys have increasingly replaced survey interviews, especially conducted in person. Even well-known social surveys, such as the European Social Survey, follow this trend. However, web surveys suffer from low response rates and frequently struggle to assure that the data are of high quality. New advances in communication technology and artificial intelligence...
09.04.2024| Jan Karem Höhne, DZHW and Leibniz University Hannover
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Conference
Joint Spring Meeting of BBSR, BTU & SOEP RegioHub
Linking survey data with spatial data is an emerging topic in the social sciences, providing the possibility to contextualize sociodemographic information and social attitudes with geospatial data such as regional indicators, neighborhood information, or environmental time series. The provision of health care, education, housing markets, or...
29.02.2024| Daniel Meyer (BBSR), Antonia Milbert (BBSR), Simon Kühne (Bielefeld University), Julia Binder (BTU), Jan Goebel
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Other refereed essays
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 ...
In:
Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
(2024), im Ersch. [online first:2024-09-11]
| Marcus Schöps, Enrico Wedekind, Tobias Gebel, Andreas O. Kempf, Peter Löwe, Luca Kohlhepp, Alexander Gehrke, Frank Puppe
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Diskussionspapiere 2077 / 2024
This paper investigates the elusive role of productivity heterogeneity in new trade models in the trade and environment nexus. We contrast the Eaton-Kortum and the Melitz models with firm heterogeneity to the Armington and Krugman models without heterogeneity. We show that if firms have a constant emission share in terms of sales — as they do in a wide range of trade and environment models — the three ...
2024| Robin Sogalla, Joschka Wanner, Yuta Watabe
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Refereed essays Web of Science
ObjectivesChange in body weight during the COVID-19 pandemic as an unintended side effect of lockdown measures has been predominantly reported for younger and middle-aged adults. However, information on older adults for which weight loss is known to result in adverse outcomes, is scarce. In this study we describe the body weight change in older adults before, during, and after the COVID-19 lockdown ...
In:
The Journal of Nutrition, Health & Aging
28 (2024), 100206, 9 S.
| Valentin Max Vetter, Johanna Drewelies, Sandra Düzel, Jan Homann, Lil Meyer-Arndt, Julian Braun, Anne Pohrt, Friederike Kendel, Gert G. Wagner, Andreas Thiel, Lars Bertram, Vera Regitz-Zagrosek, Denis Gerstorf, Ilja Demuth
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Designs using planned missingness, such as the split questionnaire design, are becoming more and more important in social survey research. To ensure an acceptable questionnaire length, these approaches typically entail large amounts of planned missing data, which can be imputed after data collection. However, social surveys typically also include other types of missingness such as item nonresponse ...
In:
Survey Research Methods
18 (2024), 2, S. 137-151
| Julian B. Axenfeld, Christian Bruch, Christof Wolf, Annelies G. Blom
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Refereed essays Web of Science
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 ...
In:
International Statistical Review
(2024), im Ersch. [Online first: 2024-08-07]
| Angelina Hammon, Sabine Zinn
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Diskussionspapiere 2095 / 2024
The shocks in structural vector autoregressive (VAR) analysis are typically assumed to be instantaneously uncorrelated. This condition may easily be violated in proxy VAR models if more than one shock is identified by a proxy variable. Correlated shocks may be obtained even if the proxies are uncorrelated and satisfy the usual relevance and exogeneity conditions individually. Examples from the recent ...
2024| Martin Bruns, Helmut Lütkepohl, James McNeil