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We present a structured additive regression approach to model conditional densities given scalar covariates, where only samples of the conditional distributions are observed. This links our approach to distributional regression models for scalar data. The model is formulated in a Bayes Hilbert space -- preserving nonnegativity and integration to one under summation and scalar multiplication -- with ...
arXiv:
2025,
| Eva-Maria Maier, Alexander Fottner, Sonja Greven, Almond Stöcker
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Despite extensive literature on incentives to increase employees’ work performance, economic research on employer-provided non-monetary benefits remains rare. This study investigates the relationship between benefits and employees’ work effort utilizing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. The analysis is based on data from eleven survey waves from 2006 to 2022 and considers five benefit types: ...
In:
Review of Managerial Science
(online first) (2026),
| Helena Manger
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This paper investigates measurement error using a German linked survey administrative dataset. By contributing to a small branch of the literature that allows the possibility of erroneous earnings from both sides of a linked survey-administrative dataset, this study provides a replication of two previously proposed versions of a representation of different combinations of (correct and incorrect) survey ...
Münster:
Universität Münster,
2025,
| Stella Martin
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While socioeconomic status (SES) and personality have both been identified as relevant predictors of academic achievement, little is known about their possible interplay in predicting school performance. The present study used the latent moderated structural equations (LMS) method to investigate latent interactions between familial SES and parent-rated Big Five in a sample of German high school students ...
In:
European Journal of Personality
(online first) (2025),
| Emilija Meier-Faust, Annelie Schulze, Yannick Martin, Annabell Daniel, Susanne Bergann
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Stock market participation among working household heads jumped upwards in 2020 – in Germany by about 25%. A major cause is the required use of work from home (WfH). We show this by repeating a benchmark study and adding WfH to the explanatory variables. Moreover, we implement an instrumental variables estimation based on industry-specific levels of WfH-capacity. The transmission channels seem to work ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2025,
(DIW Discussion Papers No. 2138)
| Lorenz Meister, Lukas Menkhoff, Carsten Schröder
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The issue evaluated was how cross-cultural cognitive pretests affect the reliability and comparability of data when studying refugees and using cross-language comparisons. Three instruments employed to assess general and health-related quality of life were revised based on the findings of cognitive pretests. The versions before and after cognitive pretests were randomly assigned to respondents in two ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
179 (2025), 1, 527–548
| Natalja Menold
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The Big Five Inventory–15p (BFI-15p) is a relatively new 15-item version developed for Hispanic populations; however, evidence of its cross-cultural equivalence is lacking. This study examined the clarity of item phrasing (Study 1) and measurement invariance (Study 2) in university students from Argentina, Spain, and Peru. Two studies were conducted: one to assess perceived item clarity (n = 70) and ...
In:
Acta Psychologica
256 (2025), 104993
| César Merino-Soto, Sergio Dominguez-Lara, Lucas Marcelo Rodriguez, Guillermo M. Chans, Manuel Marti-Vilar
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This study investigates the link between childbearing and employment changes of female immigrants and their descendants in three European countries: the UK, France, and Germany. Although childbearing significantly influences female labour force participation, the interrelationship between fertility and employment changes among migrant populations is poorly understood. We use event history models to ...
In:
European Journal of Population
41 (2025), 1, 26
| Júlia Mikolai, Hill Kulu, Isaure Delaporte, Chia Liu
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The Covid-19 pandemic brought unprecedented changes to business ownership in the UK which affects a generation of entrepreneurs and their employees. Nonetheless, the impact remains poorly understood. This is because research on capital accumulation has typically lacked high-quality, individualized, population-level data. We overcome these barriers to examine who benefits from economic crises through ...
In:
Journal of Computational Social Science
8 (2025), 2, 29
| Naomi Muggleton, Charles Rahal, Aaron Reeves
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According to behavioral economics, investors’ decisions are influenced by factors beyond rational reasoning, such as an investor's personality. This paper explores the relationships between personality, using the Big Five personality traits framework, and the willingness to invest in assets that contribute to achieving sustainable development goals (SDGs), more specifically, sustainable finances. ...
In:
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
114 (2025), 102332
| E. Muñoz-Muñoz, E. Crespo-Cebada, A. S. Mirón-Sanguino, C. Díaz-Caro