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Women have been found to be, on average, less interested in politics and less politically active than men, which might reduce the representation of women’s interests in a democracy. In order to enhance the understanding of these gender gaps, this preregistered study analyzes the role of personality differences for gender gaps in political interest and activity.I use a large representative sample of ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2021,
(SOEPpapers 1150)
| Adam Ayaita
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Two traditional options for reforming Ehegattensplitting, the joint taxation of married couples with full income splitting, are de facto income splitting (Realsplitting) or individual taxation with a transferable personal allowance. However, these proposals do not significantly reduce the marginal tax burden on the secondary earner’s income and therefore only minimally encourage married women to participate ...
In:
DIW Weekly Report
10 (2020), 41, 423-432
| Stefan Bach, Björn Fischer, Peter Haan, Katharina Wrohlich
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Daily, we face a plenty of negative information that can profoundly affect our perception and behavior. During devastating events such as the current COVID-19 pandemic, negative messages may hinder reasoning at individual level and social decisions in the society at large. These effects vary across genders in neurotypical populations (being more evident in women) and may be even more pronounced in ...
In:
Frontiers in neuroscience
15 (2021), 742576
| Elisabeth Simoes, Alexander N. Sokolov, Markus Hahn, Andreas J. Fallgatter, Sara Y. Brucker, Diethelm Wallwiener, Marina A. Pavlova
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The German Survey on Volunteering (Deutscher Freiwilligensurvey, FWS) has, for two decades, provided the basis for drawing up a report on the current state of affairs and on developments affecting volunteering in Germany. This telephone-based representative study of the German population aged 14 and above has been conducted for this purpose every five years since 1999. This short report presents the ...
Berlin:
Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend,
2021,
| Julia Simonson, Nadiya Kelle, Corinna Kausmann, Nora Karnick, Céline Arriagada, Christine Hagen, Nicole Hameister, Oliver Huxhold, Clemens Tesch-Römer
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Financial advisors rely on accurate measures of investor risk preferences. This study compares different risk elicitation methods (REMs) in terms of their perceived suitability and impact on financial advice taking. The results suggest that the perceived suitability of the suggested risk profile strongly predicts delegation to an advisory tool. REMs differ in terms of their perceived process similarity ...
In:
Journal of Behavioral Finance
24 (2023), 3, 259-275
| David J. Streich
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This dissertation examines the following research question: How do individuals perceive gender wealth inequalities within the family? In the three empirical studies, I tackle this question from two perspectives. On the one hand, the first study examines personal perceptions of inequality by analyzing with observational data how changes in the actual distribution of wealth within couples is related ...
2021,
| Daria Tisch
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Consumption spillovers are difficult to estimate. Many tests in the literature argue that spillovers cause positive correlations between individual consumption levels and aggregate income quantiles. This paper develops simulation-based procedures for evaluating reduced-form tests for consumption spillovers. I find that the correlation found in prior tests may be spurious, arising from the mechanical ...
2021,
| Han Wang
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For people living in the former East Germany, reunification with the former West Germany fundamentally transformed the sociopolitical system and most domains of everyday life. Previous research has revealed temporal shifts in average life satisfaction after reunification in the former East German population as a whole, but so far little is known about heterogeneity in patterns of adjustment within ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
159 (2022), 3, 1103-1123
| Martin Wetzel, Jonathan Wörn, Bettina Hünteler, Karsten Hank
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This thesis consists of three independent articles. In the first chapter, I test whether tipping points can explain observed workplace segregation between immigrants and natives in Germany over the period 1990-2010. I reject the hypothesis of tipping dynamics. Furthermore, I show that traditional tests of tipping points based on Regression Discontinuity Designs tend to over-reject the null hypothesis ...
2020,
| Sébastien Willis
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Due to the pandemic-induced economic crisis, self-employed individuals are currently suffering considerable income losses. The self-employed and the members in their households usually form an economic unit. As a consequence, the income cuts not only affect the self-employed themselves but also the rest of their household. We used the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to calculate how much income ...
In:
Review of Economics of the Household
21 (2023), 1, 37-57
| Stefan Schneck