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Purpose: Based on theoretical predictions from human capital theory, the aim of this exploratory study is to analyze the relationship between experimentally elicited, incentivized economic preference parameters, Big Five and Grit personality traits, cognitive ability, and the Alameda Seven lifestyles: smoking, drinking excessively, being overweight or obese, experiencing stress, following a healthy ...
In:
Risk Management and Healthcare Policy
15 (2022), 93-105
| Donata Bessey
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Nonparametric random coefficient (RC)-density estimation has mostly been considered in the marginal density case under strict independence of RCs and covariates. This paper deals with the estimation of RC-densities conditional on a (large-dimensional) set of control variables using machine learning techniques. The conditional RC-density allows to disentangle observable from unobservable heterogeneity ...
2022,
(ArXiv preprint arXiv:2201.08366)
| Stephan Martin
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This paper provides a brief summary of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, a nationally representative household panel survey. It describes the survey’s key design features, provides an overview of its content, and reports on response rates and sample sizes. It also highlights a few examples of research utilising the data, discusses two challenges currently facing ...
In:
Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
241 (2021), 1, 131-141
| Nicole Watson, Mark Wooden
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There is a vast literature on the determinants of subjective wellbeing. Yet, standard regression models explain little variation in wellbeing. We here use data from Germany, the UK, and the US to assess the potential of Machine Learning (ML) to help us better understand wellbeing. Compared to traditional models, ML approaches provide moderate improvements in predictive performance. Drastically expanding ...
Oxford:
Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School (INET Oxford),
2022,
(INET Oxford Working Paper No. 2022-11)
| Ekaterina Oparina, Caspar Kaiser, Niccolò Gentile, Alexandre Tkatchenko, Andrew E. Clark, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Conchita D'Ambrosio
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This study sheds light on whether the provision of information on costs, financing options, and returns of college education results in higher application and college enrollment rates. Based on a behavioral intervention with more than 1,000 high school students in Germany, we provide evidence that the provision of such information increases college application and enrollment rates, in particular for ...
In:
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
190 (2021), October 2021, 524-549
| Frauke Peter, C. Katharina Spieß, Vaishali Zambre
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In dieser Dissertation wird die Beziehung zwischen Arbeitsplatzmerkmalen und dem subjektiven Wohlbefinden von Arbeitnehmern untersucht. Das Wohlbefinden wird in diesem Zusammenhang als ein Konzept verstanden, das aus drei Dimensionen besteht. Diese Dimensionen umfassen die Arbeitszufriedenheit, den ungesunden Lebensstil sowie die krankheitsbedingten Fehltage von Arbeitnehmern. Es wird analysiert inwiefern ...
2022,
| Maike Rubin
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Kinder wachsen und verändern sich ganz offensichtlich im Laufe der Zeit, aber nicht nur sie. Menschen verändern sich über ihre gesamte Lebensspanne. Empirisch belegt ist, dass sich auch die Persönlichkeit von Erwachsenen (d.h.: Offenheit für Erfahrungen, Gewissenhaftigkeit, Extraversion, Verträglichkeit, Neurotizismus) und ihr soziales Leben (z.B.: Größe des sozialen Netzwerks) bis ins hohe Alter verändern. ...
2022,
| Julia Sander
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Public opinion climates on immigrants are subject to certain dynamics. This study examines two mechanisms for such dynamics in Western EU member states for the 2002–2018 period. First, the impact of cohort replacement and, second, the impact of periodic threat perceptions, namely, changing macroeconomic conditions and shifts in immigration rates. To date, empirical research on anti-immigrant sentiments ...
In:
International Journal of Comparative Sociology
62 (2021), 4, 281-310
| Katja Schmidt
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We analyse the causal effect of education on patience (also known as time preference) and risk willingness using the German compulsory schooling reform, which took effect in West Germany after World War II. This reform increased compulsory schooling from 8 years to 9 years. We use two-stage least squares to obtain causal effects. In line with the literature, the results show a positive effect of education ...
In:
Applied Economics
54 (2022), 58, 6687-6702
| Beatrice Baaba Tawiah
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This doctoral thesis contributes to research on over-time trends in the intergenerational transmission of inequality in two major European societies. Paper 1 entitled ‘Intergenerational Class Mobility of Labour Market Entrants in Germany and the UK since the 1950s’ shows that absolute mobility between parents’ social class and their children’s first social class has continuously changed. Still, increases ...
2021,
| Nhat An Trinh