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DIW Weekly Report 13 / 2022
Air pollution results in high economic costs arising from its negative impacts on human health, especially in urban areas. Driving restriction policies such as low emission zones (LEZs) are designed to improve air quality. Indeed, empirical analyses in this Weekly Report confirm that LEZs reduce traffic-related air pollution. However, the analyses also reveal unintended adverse effects on secondary ...
2022| Luis Sarmiento, Nicole Wägner, Aleksandar Zaklan
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This paper examines the experienced well-being of employed and unemployed workers. We use the survey-adapted Day Reconstruction Method of the Innovation Sample of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study to analyze the role of the employment status for well-being, incorporating time use. We use the novel P-index to summarize the average share of pleasurable minutes on a day and show that in contrast to ...
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Social Indicators Research
163 (2022), 2, S. 691–721
| Tobias Wolf, Maria Metzing, Richard E. Lucas
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Job satisfaction helps create a committed workforce with many positive effects, such as increased organisational citizenship behaviour and reduced absenteeism. In turn, job satisfaction can be increased through gratifications, such as wage increases and promotions. But human satisfaction is prone to being governed by the homeostatic principle and will eventually return to the individual's base level. ...
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Human Resource Management Journal
32 (2022), 1, S. 151-168
| Siegmar Otto, Vincent Dekker, Hannah Dekker, David Richter, Sarah Zabel
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Introduction: Control beliefs can protect against age-related declines in functioning. It is unclear whether neighborhood characteristics shape how much control people perceive over their life. This article studies associations of neighborhood characteristics with control beliefs of residents of a diverse metropolitan area (Berlin, Germany). Methods: We combine self-report data about perceptions of ...
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Gerontology
68 (2022), 2,S. 214–223
| Johanna Drewelies, Peter Eibich, Sandra Düzel, Simone Kühn, Christian Krekel, Jan Goebel, Jens Kolbe, Ilja Demuth, Ulman Lindenberger, Gert G. Wagner, Denis Gerstorf
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SOEPpapers 1159 / 2022
Background: The transition to parenthood is characterized by far-reaching changes in life. However, little prospective-longitudinal evidence from general population samples exists on changes of general physical and mental health in the years around the birth of a child among mothers and fathers. Methods: Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), this study examined continuous and ...
2022| Eva Asselmann, Susan Garthus-Niegel, Susanne Knappe, Julia Martini
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In most cross-national research on Life Satisfaction (LS) an implicit assumption appears to be that the correlates of LS are the same the world over; ‘one size fits all’. Using data from the World Values Survey (1999–2014), we question this assumption by assessing the effects of differing personal values/life priorities on LS in five world regions: the West, Latin America, the Asian-Confucian region, ...
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Applied Research in Quality of Life
17 (2022), 2, S. 763-794
| Bruce Headey, Gisela Trommsdorff, Gert G. Wagner
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Using COME-HERE longitudinal data from 2021, this investigation links mask wearing, prosocial behaviour, and well-being. Given that mask wearing has positive externality properties, wearing one can be seen as pro-social behaviour. Individuals are categorised into three groups based on a comparison between their own mask wearing frequency and what is required by law. Those...
01.12.2021| Alan Piper, Paris School of Economics and Freie Universität Berlin
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Workshop
This online workshop on the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on societal inequalities is organized as kick-off for the research project “GaPRisk – Groups put at Particular Risk by Covid-19”. The project is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and is a cooperation between the DIW Berlin, the Robert Koch Institute, and Bielefeld University. The PIs of the project are...
06.10.2021| Claudia Hövener (RKI), Oliver Razum (Bielefeld University), Sabine Zinn, Carsten Schröder
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
Grandparents act as the third biggest care giver besides day care and parental care for children below the age of 6 in most OECD countries. Despite its relevance, the effects of child care provided by grandparents on child and parental outcomes have received little attention in the literature. We investigate the potential impact of grandparental care on children's...
12.05.2021| Elena Ziege
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Research Project
The main objective of this project is to analyse how inequalities in old age have developed over time and birth cohorts, to what extent public policies have influenced these trends, and to assess the potential of sociopolitical reforms to reduce such inequalities. This project analyses and compares data and sociopolitical reforms (retirement and longterm care) from North America (Canada), Western...
Current Project| Public Economics