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This paper exploits the idiosyncratic line of contact separating Allied and Soviet troops within East Germany at the end of WWII to study political resistance in a non-democracy. When Nazi Germany surrendered, 40% of what would become the authoritarian German Democratic Republic was initially under Allied control but was ceded to Soviet control less than two months later. Brief Allied exposure increased ...
In:
Applied Economics
15 (2023), 1, 68-106
| Luis R. Martínez, Jonas Jessen, Guo Xu
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We analyze the relation between individuals’ risk aversion and their willingness to expose themselves to infection when faced with an asymptomatic infectious disease. We show that in a high prevalence environment, increasing individuals’ risk aversion increases their propensity to engage in transmissive behavior. The reason for this result is that as risk aversion increases, exposure which leads to ...
In:
Economic Theory
76 (2023), 1, 1-44
| Konstantin Matthies, Flavio Toxvaerd
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introduction: The first wave of the “Corona Monitoring bundesweit” (RKI-SOEP) study showed that shortly before the start of the German vaccination program only about 2% of adults (> 18 years) had already experienced SARS-CoV-2 infection and more than half of these cases had been detected and notified. The objectives of the second wave of this study are to further investigate the spread of SARS-CoV-2 ...
In:
European Journal of Public Health
32 (2022), Supplement_3, iii23
| Elisabetta Mercuri, Christina Poethko-Müller, Angelika Schaffrath Rosario, Lorenz Schmid, Martin Schlaud, Antje Gößwald, RKI-SOEP-2-study group
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In den letzten 15 Jahren vor Beginn der COVID-19-Krise hat Deutschland einen starken und kontinuierlichen Anstieg der Beschäftigung erlebt - das sogenannte "deutsche Jobwunder". Zeitgleich verblieb die Ungleichheit der verfügbaren Haushaltseinkommen, nach einer kurzen Phase deutlichen Anstiegs, relativ konstant. Diese Studie untersucht die Auswirkungen von Beschäftigungsänderungen auf die ...
Nürnberg:
Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB),
2022,
(IAB-Discussion Paper 16/2022)
| Jannek Mühlhan
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Prior research has suggested three explanations why levels of voluntary engagement rise and fall over time within societies. A social structural explanation considers individual resources crucial for engagement and argues that a redistribution of those resources may bring about changes in engagement. A cohort-based explanation considers socialisation and experiences in formative years as crucial for ...
In:
VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations
34 (2023), 4, 861-871
| Jannes Jacobsen, David Schieferdecker, Denis Gerstorf, Swen Hutter, Jule Specht
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While works councils provide a highly developed mechanism to promote workplace democracy, research on their consequences has been dominated by economic aspects. This study brings a new perspective to the understanding of works councils by examining their influence on workers’ political behavior. Political spillover theory suggests that participation in the firm’s decision making has the potential to ...
In:
Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics
95 (2024), 5–31
| Uwe Jirjahn, Thi Xuan T. Le
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The conceptual and empirical overlap of grandiose narcissism and self-esteem is part of ongoing debate. Whereas cross-sectional findings suggest a moderate correlation between both constructs, evidence on the longitudinal relationship of narcissism and self-esteem is still lacking. Using data of two longitudinal studies consisting of more than 10,000 participants in adulthood, the aim of the present ...
In:
European Journal of Personality
38 (2024), 1, 85-98
| Janis Jung, Katrin Rentzsch, Michela Schröder-Abé
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Human feelings measured in integers (my happiness is an 8 out of 10, my pain 2 out of 6) have no objective scientific basis. They are “made-up” numbers on a scale that does not exist. Yet such data are extensively collected—despite criticism from, especially, economists—by governments and international organizations. We examine this paradox. We draw upon longitudinal information on the feelings and ...
In:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
119 (2022), 42, e2210412119
| Caspar Kaiser, Andrew J. Oswald
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This study examines the money-subjective well-being nexus by studying the link between changes in jointly and solely (i.e. respondents’ own and their partner’s own) held gross wealth and changes in married individuals’ subjective well-being. Joint assets reflect norms of sharing responsibilities and resources. Solely held assets, in contrast, offer individual economic independence. Using wealth data ...
In:
European Journal of Population
38 (2022), 4, 811-834
| Nicole Kapelle, Theresa Nutz, Daria Tisch, Manuel Schechtl, Philipp M. Lersch, Emanuela Struffolino
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Previous research has examined when and why immigrant women living in Germany become mothers, provided they came from former guest-worker countries. However, less is known about the fertility behavior of other groups of international immigrants in Germany. This study investigates the transition to motherhood across first-generation immigrant women from three different regions of origin who were childless ...
2022,
| Leonie Diffené