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Using data from 58,748 participants from a nationally representative German sample, we tested preregistered hypotheses about factors that impact concerns about the environment over time. We found that environmental concerns increased modestly from 2009 to 2017. Individuals in middle adulthood tended to be more concerned and showed more consistent increases in concern over time than younger or older ...
In:
Journal of Environmental Psychology
77 (2021), 101684
| Christopher J. Hopwood, Ted Schwaba, Wiebke Bleidorn
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In this paper, I analyze how the higher education decision of young adults in Germany depends on their expected future earnings. For this, I estimate a microeconometric model in which individuals maximize life-time utility by choosing whether or not to enter higher education. To forecast individual life cycles in terms of employment, earnings, and family formation under higher education and its alternative, ...
Berlin:
School of Business and Economics, Freie Universität Berlin,
2021,
(Discussion Paper Economics 2021/8)
| Dominik Hügle
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Diese Dissertation befasst sich mit der Ökonomie der postsekundären Bildung in Deutschland. In Anbetracht der Tatsache, dass junge Erwachsene in Deutschland nach dem Abschluss der Sekundarstufe in der Regel entweder ein Studium oder eine Berufsausbildung (oder manchmal auch beides) aufnehmen, werden drei grundlegende Fragen untersucht: (i) "Lohnt sich ein Hochschulstudium für das Individuum und ...
2021,
| Dominik Hügle
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Workers wrongly anchor their beliefs about outside options on their current wage. In particular, low-paid workers underestimate wages elsewhere. We document this anchoring bias by eliciting workers’ beliefs in a representative survey in Germany and comparing them to measures of actual outside options in linked administrative labor market data. In an equilibrium model, such anchoring can give rise to ...
In:
Quarterly Journal of Economics
139 (2024), 3, 1505-1556
| Simon Jäger, Christopher Roth, Nina Roussille, Benjamin Schoefer
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Single mothers often experience precarious financial conditions. However, it is not fully understood to what extent separation is the cause of these conditions versus being their consequence. Estimating an endogenous switching regression model based on a sample of 626 separated and 5,525 non-separated mothers drawn from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984-2018, we disentangle the roles of causation ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2021,
(SOEPpapers 1147)
| Antonia Birkeneder, Christina Boll
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This paper analyses the relationship between locus of control (LOC) and the demand for supplementary health insurance. Drawing on longitudinal data from Germany, we find robust evidence that individuals having an internal LOC are more likely to take up supplementary private health insurance (SUPP). The increase in the probability to have a SUPP due to one standard deviation increase in the measure ...
Bonn:
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA),
2021,
(IZA DP No. 14633)
| Eric Bonsang, Joan Costa-Font, Sonja C. de New
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This paper examines the relationship between locus of control (LOC) and the demand for supplementary health insurance (SUPP). Drawing on longitudinal data from Germany, we document robust evidence that individuals internal LOC increases the take up of supplementary private health insurance (SUPP). We find that the effect of one standard deviation increase in the measure of internal LOC on the probability ...
In:
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
204 (2022), 476-489
| Eric Bonsang, Joan Costa-Font
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In 2015, Germany introduced a statutory hourly minimum wage that was not only universally binding but also set at a relatively high level. By focusing on the short-run effects of the German Minimum Wage Reform, I estimate its impact on employment. Using a difference-in-differences framework, I exploit variation in the regional treatment intensity, assuming that the stronger a minimum wage ‘bites’ into ...
2021,
| Silvio Ceron
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Watching television is the most time-consuming human activity besides work but its role for individual well-being is unclear. Negative consequences portrayed in the literature raise the question whether this popular pastime constitutes an economic good or bad, and hence serves as a prime example of irrational behavior reducing individual health and happiness. Using rich panel data, we are the first ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2021,
(SOEPpapers 1148)
| Adrian Chadi, Manuel Hoffmann
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We propose a broadly applicable empirical approach to classify individuals as time-consistent versus native or sophisticated regarding their self-control limitations. Operationalizing our approach based on nationally representative data reveals that self-control problems are pervasive and that most people are at least partly aware of their limited self-control. Compared to naifs, sophisticates have ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2021,
(SOEPpapers 1144)
| Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Sarah Dahmann, Daniel A. Kamhöfer, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch