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High-wealth individuals are typically underrepresented or completely missing in population surveys. The lack of comprehensive national registers on high-wealth individuals in many countries challenged previous attempts to remedy this under-representation. In a novel research design, we draw on public data on the shareholding structures of companies as a sampling frame. Our design builds on the empirical ...
In:
Review of Income and Wealth
66 (2020), 4, 825-849
| Carsten Schröder, Charlotte Bartels, Markus M. Grabka, Johannes König, Martin Kroh, Rainer Siegers
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The measurement scale of exam scores is ordinal. This ordinal measurement implies that monotonic transformations of published scales convey the same information. Hence, countries should not be ranked according to averaged scores because there may be transformations that would change the mean-based rankings. We suggest alternatives to the mean-based ranking procedure that yield informative and robust ...
In:
Journal of Economics
129 (2020), 3, 271-296
| Carsten Schröder, Shlomo Yitzhaki
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Objective: This study examines fairness perceptions of experimentally manipulated savings arrangements in couples (i.e., distribution of control and ownership of savings) to identify distributive justice principles in marriage. Background: Theoretically, competing norms about individual ownership rights and autonomy (equity principle) and marital sharing (equality principle) in interaction with gender ...
In:
Journal of Marriage and Family
83 (2021), 2, 516-533
| Daria Tisch, Philipp M. Lersch
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Increasing nonresponse rates is a pressing issue for many longitudinal panel studies. Respondents frequently either refuse participation in single survey waves (temporary dropout) or discontinue participation altogether (permanent dropout). Contemporary statistical methods that are used to elucidate predictors of survey nonresponse are typically limited to small variable sets and ignore complex interaction ...
In:
Social Science Computer Review
40 (2022), 3, 678-699
| Sabine Zinn, Timo Gnambs
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The Project “Mentoring of Refugees” (MORE) implements a randomized controlled trial (RCT) into an existing survey on refugees in Germany. The treatment is the participation in a mentoring relationship with a local resident, which is organized by a non-profit organization. The project aims at analyzing whether mentoring programs between refugees and local residents impact refugees’ integration trajectories. ...
In:
Canadian Diversity
17 (2020), 2, 82-88
| Jannes Jacobsen, Philipp Jaschke, Magdalena Krieger, Martin Kroh, Nicolas Legewie, Lea-Maria Löbel
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Against the backdrop of soaring wealth inequalities in older age, this research addresses the relationship between increasingly diverse family life courses and widening wealth differences between individuals as they age. We holistically examined how childbearing and marital histories matter for West German baby boomer cohorts’ personal wealth at ages 51 to 59. We proposed that wealth penalties associated ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2020,
(SOEPpapers 1092)
| Nicole Kapelle, Sergi Vidal
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Background: Some have hypothesized that the coronavirus crisis may result in a retraditionalization of behaviour. This paper examines this hypothesis by analyzing how the time fathers and mothers spent with their children changed during the first lockdown in the case of Germany. Methods: Data for this investigation come from the German Socio-Economic Panel. The outcome variable is the time spent on ...
In:
Demographic Research
44 (2021), 4, 99-124
| Michaela Kreyenfeld, Sabine Zinn, Michael Bayer, Theresa M. Entringer, Jan Goebel, Markus M. Grabka, Daniel Graeber, Martin Kroh, Hannes Kröger, Simon Kühne, Stefan Liebig, Carsten Schröder, Jürgen Schupp, Johannes Seebauer
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This paper uses a panel of German individuals and highly granular pollution data to test if air pollution affects adults’ well-being indirectly through the health of their children. Results show that ozone decreases the well-being of individuals with children while not affecting persons without kids. We confirm the same effect for fine particulate matter and sulfur dioxide. Concerning the mechanism, ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2020,
(DIW Discussion Papers No. 1877)
| Julia Rechlitz, Luis Sarmiento, Aleksandar Zaklan
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Women’s life courses underwent substantial changes in the family and work domains in the second half of the twentieth century. The associated fundamental changes in opportunity structures and values challenged the importance of families of origin for individual life courses, but two research strands suggest enduring within-family reproduction of women’s family behavior and work outcomes. We revisit ...
In:
Demography
57 (2020), 1483-1511
| Sergi Vidal, Philipp M. Lersch, Marita Jacob, Karsten Hank
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Objectives: Responding to the mental health needs of refugees remains a pressing challenge worldwide. We estimated the prevalence of psychological distress in a large refugee population in Germany and assessed its association with host country factors amenable to policy intervention and integration indicators. Design: A cross-sectional and population-based secondary analysis of the 2017 wave of the ...
In:
BMJ Open
10 (2020), 8, e033658
| Lena Walther, Hannes Kröger, Ana Nanette Tibubos, Thi Minh Tam Ta, Christian von Scheve, Jürgen Schupp, Eric Hahn, Malek Bajbouj