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Background In recent decades, we have observed rising wealth inequality while the pace of growth of life expectancy has slowed in many Western welfare democracies. There is scarce evidence, however, on links between wealth and mortality. The main methodological limitation in this area of scholarship is its inability to account for individuals' unobserved heterogeneity, such as personality and ...
In:
The Lancet Regional Health - Europe
48 (2025), 101113
| Alexi Gugushvili, Øyvind Nicolay Wiborg
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Introduction: An ample scholarly literature on voluntary migration has shown that migration is a highly selective process, resulting in migrant populations that often differ significantly from their respective population of origin in terms of their socio-demographic characteristics. The literature attributes these differences to either migrants' active choice and agency in the migration decision ...
In:
Frontiers in Human Dynamics
5 (2024),
| Lidwina Gundacker, Sekou Keita, Simon A. Ruhnke
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To better understand the effects of life events, research interest recently turned to the question of how life events are perceived (e.g., as positive, predictable, or controllable). However, research on this topic primarily focused on young adulthood, leaving it unclear whether and how the perception of life events varies across the life course. In this study, we examined the relationship between ...
In:
PLOS ONE
19 (2024), 12, e0314011
| Peter Haehner, Bernd Schaefer, Debora Brickau, Till Kaiser, Maike Luhmann
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This thesis deals with methods for the appropriate handling of non-ignorable missing data and sample selection, which are two common challenges of survey data analysis. Both issues can dramatically affect the quality of analysis results and lead to misleading inferences about the population. Therefore, in three different research articles, I treat methods for the performance of so-called sensitivity ...
2023,
| Angelina Hammon
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This paper introduces the Open Data Format (ODF), a new, non-proprietary, multilingual, metadata enriched, and zip-compressed data format that meets the FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship. The data format is specified as a CSV file with the raw data and an XML file containing the metadata both compressed into a zip file with the .zip extension. Data files can be ...
2024,
(KonsortSWD Working paper)
| Xiaoyao Han, Tom Hartl, Knut Wenzig
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Research has shown poorer health and higher prevalence in mental distress of single mothers compared with partnered mothers. The aim of this paper is to focus on single mothers’ health and to highlight heterogeneity among single mothers. Both, interindividual and intraindividual variability of single mothers will be considered in this study. We will analyze therefore empirically determinants affecting ...
Berlin:
2012,
| Mine Hancioglu
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Abstract This paper analyzes whether Christian moralities and rules formed differently by Catholics and Protestants impact the likelihood of households becoming over-indebted. We find that over-indebtedness is lower in regions in which Catholics outweigh Protestants, indicating that Catholics' forgiveness culture and stricter enforcement of rules by Protestants serve as explanations for our results. ...
In:
Journal of Financial Research
(online first) (2024),
| Iftekhar Hasan, Felix Noth, Konstantin Kiesel
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The present publication constitutively expands the field of discourse on the topic of basic income and explores the possibilities of its introduction as well as the opportunities and risks. Although all visionary proposals for an unconditional basic income (BGE) have so far not been implemented politically, at least in democratically constituted welfare states, the question of implementation or the ...
Wiesbaden:
Springer VS,
2023,
| Rolf G. Heinze, Jürgen Schupp
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This article examines Norwegian lower-secondary students who enrol in fast-track programs in mathematics. These fast-track programs are designed to accommodate high-performing students who want a faster learning pace than the average student. In general, both educational performance and choice depend on class origin, ethnicity, and gender, according to research. Therefore, in studying the probability ...
In:
European Societies
26 (2024), 1, 91-116
| Håvard Helland, Øyvind Wiborg, Karl Ingar Kittelsen Røberg
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In the context of the present thesis, an instrument for the assessment of subclinical stress symptoms was developed and investigated. For this purpose, the exposure to stress, other socio-economic risk factors, and childhood adversities were investigated on the basis of representative samples both of the general population as well as of forensic patient populations. Furthermore, subclinical stress ...
2021,
| Elisa Helms