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This paper evaluates how a light-touch parenting program for parents of children below school entry age affects maternal family well-being. We analyze data from a randomized controlled trial focusing on non-disadvantaged parents. Overall, results show no short-term effects but a relatively large positive effect of the intervention on maternal family well-being in the medium term. With a 20- to 30-percent ...
In:
The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy
20 (2020), 4, 20200084
| Georg F. Camehl, C. Katharina Spieß, Kurt Hahlweg
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The outbreak of COVID-19 has sparked a sudden demand for fast, frequent and accurate data on the societal impact of the pandemic. This demand has highlighted a divide in survey data collection: Most probability-based social surveys, which can deliver the necessary data quality to allow valid inference to the general population, are slow, infrequent and ill-equipped to survey people during a lockdown. ...
In:
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society)
185 (2022), 3, 773-797
| Carina Cornesse, Ulrich Krieger, Marie-Lou Sohnius, Marina Fikel, Sabine Friedel, Tobias Rettig, Alexander Wenz, Sebastian Juhl, Roni Lehrer, Katja Möhring, Elias Naumann, Maximiliane Reifenscheid, Annelies G. Blom
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Objective: This article examines how unemployment affects the separation risk of heterosexual coresiding couples, depending on couples' household income and whether men or women become unemployed. Background: Unemployment may decrease the separation risk as a drop in resources makes separation more costly—or it may increase the separation risk if unemployment creates stress and reduces the quality ...
In:
Journal of Marriage and Family
84 (2022), 1, 310-329
| Alessandro Di Nallo, Oliver Lipps, Daniel Oesch, Marieke Voorpostel
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In this paper, we provide novel evidence on the effect of local unemployment rate on life satisfaction. With this, we contribute to the expanding literature that aims to understand the role of the local labor market's conditions for individual well-being. This information can be used to only analyze the impact of regional economic policies, as well as to understand individuals' behavior and ...
In:
Journal of Regional Science
62 (2022), 2, 412-442
| Antonio Di Paolo, Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell
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Grandparents act as the third largest caregiver after parental care and daycare in Germany, as in many Western societies. Adopting a double-generation perspective, we investigate the causal impact of this care mode on children's health, socio-emotional behavior, and school outcomes, as well as parental well-being. Based on representative German panel data sets, and exploiting arguably exogenous ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2021,
(SOEPpapers 1152)
| Mara Barschkett, C. Katharina Spieß, Elena Ziege
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How does economic growth affect the distribution of wealth? Combining wealth records from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and local GDP growth across 401 German counties, this paper documents a sizable Hometown-Growth-Wealth Nexus. Using a standard OLG model to guide our estimation strategy, we find that, because of hometown growth, a person born in flourishing Munich will have accumulated two to three ...
2024,
(SSRN Working Paper)
| Charlotte Bartels, Johannes König, Carsten Schröder
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While research indicates that social trust might benefit societies? political and economic development, the sources of social trust are subject to debate. This article investigates a less investigated factor in the development of social trust: how far the nuclear family ? that is, partnerships and parenthood ? affects trust towards other people. The data are from three waves of the German Socio-Economic ...
In:
European Societies
24 (2022), 2, 111-128
| Morten Blekesaune
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We use Pareto imputation, survey reweighting, and microsimulation methods applied to combined household survey and tax return data to re-evaluate trends in income inequality and redistribution in the follow up of the post-socialist transition in Poland. Our approach results in the first estimates of top-corrected inequality trends for real equivalised disposable incomes over the years 1994–2015, a ...
In:
European Journal of Political Economy
73 (2022), June 2022, 102121
| Michal Brzezinski, Michał Myck, Mateusz Najsztub
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Many previous authors concluded that the middle class is disappearing as income polarization is increasing. Using the housing cycle of 2001--2007 and national panels for Australia, the United States, Germany, and Switzerland, I show that polarization is highly sensitive to housing cycles, affecting the ranking of countries. I then show that including non-monetary income from housing (imputed rent) ...
2021,
(Research Gate Preprint)
| Sergey Alexeev
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Within the Preparation Module for the Einstein Center for Population Diversity (ECPD), diverse research institutions came together to provide new survey instruments for the innovation sample in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP-IS). With the goal of collecting insightful information about future narratives and family care, central topics of the ECPD research endeavor, factorial survey was chosen ...
Berlin:
Hertie School,
2021,
| Enrique Alonso-Perez, Olan McEvoy, Vincent Ramos, Julie Lorraine O'Sullivan, Stefan Liebig, Michaela Kreyenfeld, Philipp Lersch, Giacomo Bazzani, Raffaele Guetto, Daniele Vignoli, Jan Heisig, Heike Solga, Paul Gellert