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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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The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has spread rapidly across Germany. Infections are likely to be under-recorded in the notification data from local health authorities on laboratory-confirmed cases since SARS-CoV-2 infections can proceed with few symptoms and then often remain undetected. Seroepidemiological studies allow the estimation of the proportion in the population that has been infected with SARS-CoV-2 ...
In:
Journal of Health Monitoring
6 (2021), S1, 1-16
| Jens Hoebel, Markus A. Busch, Markus M. Grabka, Sabine Zinn, Jennifer Allen, et al.
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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