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We investigate the consistency of prosocial behaviors in response to changes in the institutional setting of a lab-in-the-field experiment involving primary school students in El Salvador. Students play variants of the dictator game allowing the option to take and with relative unequal initial endowments. We exploit within-subject variation and find that children are sensitive to the enlargement of ...
Milan:
Centro Studi Luca d’Agliano,
2021,
(Development Studies Working Paper N. 478)
| Jacopo Bonan, Sergiu Burlacu, Arianna Galliera
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We present new descriptive evidence on the immigrant-native gap in risk and time preferences in Germany, one of immigrants’ most preferred destination countries. Using the recent waves of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) dataset, we find that the immigrant-native gap in risk preferences has widened for recent immigration cohorts, especially around the time of the 2015 European Refugee Crisis. We attribute ...
In:
Journal of Population Economics
36 (2023), April 2023, 743-778
| Sumit S. Deole, Marc O. Rieger
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Auf der Grundlage eines Einstellungsitems im sozio-ökonomischen Panel, das die individuelle Besorgtheit um den Schutz der Umwelt misst, analysiert der Beitrag die Entwicklung der Umweltsorgen in Deutschland für den Zeitraum 1984–2019. Die Analysen sind hauptsächlich deskriptiver Natur. Es wird ausgewählten Erwartungen und Annahmen nachgegangen, die zum einen in historischen Rückblicken auf die neuere ...
In:
Zeitschrift für Soziologie
50 (2021), 5, 322-337
| Jörg Hartmann, Peter Preisendörfer
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Vaccination has been critical to reducing infections and deaths during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. While previous studies have investigated attitudes toward taking a vaccine, studies on the determinants of COVID-19 vaccination behavior are scant. We examine what characteristics, including socioeconomic and non-economic factors, are associated with vaccination behavior for COVID-19 ...
In:
Vaccines
9 (2021), 12, 1505
| Toshihiro Okubo, Atsushi Inoue, Kozue Sekijima
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Considering soaring wealth inequalities in older age, this research addresses the relationship between family life courses and widening wealth differences between individuals as they age. We holistically examine how childbearing and marital histories are associated with personal wealth at ages 50–59 for Western Germans born between 1943 and 1967. We propose that deviations from culturally and institutionally-supported ...
In:
European Journal of Population
38 (2022), 1, 59-92
| Nicole Kapelle, Sergi Vidal
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Drawing on cumulative advantage/disadvantage and conservation of resources theories, I investigated changes in economic, social, and personal resources and in subjective well-being (SWB) of workers as they stayed continuously employed or continuously unemployed. I considered age, gender, and SES as potential amplifiers of inequality in resources and SWB. Using 28 yearly waves from the German Socio-Economic ...
In:
PLOS ONE
16 (2021), 12, e0261794
| Maria K. Pavlova
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Public debates and current research on “digitalization” suggest that digital technologies could profoundly transform the world of work. While broad claims are common in these debates, empirical evidence remains scarce. This calls for reliable data for empirical research and evidence-based policymaking. We implemented a data module in the Socio-Economic Panel to gather information on digitalization ...
In:
Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
242 (2022), 5-6, 691-705
| Alexandra Fedorets, Stefan Kirchner, Jule Adriaans, Oliver Giering
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This paper studies the effect of air pollution on voting outcomes. We use data from 60 federal and state elections in Germany from 2000 to 2018 and exploit plausibly exogenous fluctuations in ambient air pollution within counties across election dates. Higher air pollution on election day shifts votes away from incumbent parties and towards opposition parties. An increase in the concentration of particulate ...
Bonn:
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA),
2021,
(IZA DP No. 14718)
| Luna Bellani, Stefano Ceolotto, Benjamin Elsner, Nico Pestel
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Past research syntheses provided evidence that personality traits are both stable and changeable throughout the lifespan. However, early meta-analytic estimates were constrained by a relatively small universe of longitudinal studies, many of which tracked personality traits in small samples over moderate time periods using measures that were only loosely related to contemporary trait models such as ...
2022,
(PsyArXiv Preprints)
| Wiebke Bleidorn, Ted Schwaba, Anqing Zheng, Christopher J. Hopwood, Susana S. Sosa, Brent W. Roberts, D. A. Briley
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In this paper, we document that living under Communism vs. Capitalism has lasting effects on preferences for a strong government. Relying on the natural experiment of German reunification and extending the analysis of Alesina and Fuchs-Schündeln (2007), we show that East Germans still have stronger preferences for redistribution than West Germans 27 years after reunification. While convergence of preferences ...
In:
German Economic Review
24 (2023), 1, 97-119
| Mariia Bondar, Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln