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Donations and unpaid working are two important forms of non-market activities that are usually considered separately in the literature. The purpose of this paper is to empirically test hypotheses on determinants of giving to organizations. In particular, the importance of voluntary work for giving behavior is examined in comparison to other unpaid activities. In addition, the aim is to find out whether ...
Bonn:
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA),
2023,
(IZA DP No. 16142)
| Olaf Hübler
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Abstract Since the 1980s inflationary pressures seem to materialise over-proportionately outside sectors of consumer goods and services. We combine the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices with indices for asset prices, such as stocks and real estate, as well as a proxy for the costs of public goods to develop alternative inflation measures in Germany since the introduction of the Euro. Real economic ...
In:
The World Economy
47 (2024), 2, 618-636
| Karl-Friedrich Israel, Gunther Schnabl
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We study the local evolution of female labour supply and cultural norms in West Germany in reaction to the sudden presence of East Germans who migrated to the West after reunification. These migrants grew up with high rates of maternal employment, whereas West German families mostly followed the traditional breadwinner-housewife model. We find that West German women increase their labour supply and ...
In:
The Economic Journal
134 (2024), 659, 1146–1172
| Jonas Jessen, Sophia Schmitz, Felix Weinhardt
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The COVID-19 pandemic and related closures of day care centres and schools significantly increased the amount of care work done by parents. There has been much speculation over whether the pandemic increased or decreased gender equality in parental care work. Based on representative data for Germany from spring 2020 and winter 2021 we present an empirical analysis that shows that although gender inequality ...
In:
German Economic Review
23 (2022), 4, 641-667
| Jonas Jessen, C. Katharina Spiess, Sevrin Waights, Katharina Wrohlich
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In recent years, Costa Rica has experienced greater international migration from neighboring countries due to political, economic, and social reasons, raising discussions on the impact of migration on wages of native Costa Rican workers. This article is the first that disentangles the impact of migration on wages for native Costa Ricans from the impact for settled immigrants by analyzing the effect ...
In:
Migration Studies
11 (2023), 1, 23-51
| Adriana R Cardozo Silva, Luis R Díaz Pavez, Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso
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In this study, we ask whether the U-shaped relationship between life satisfaction and age is flatter for individuals who are partnered. An analysis of cross-sectional EU-SILC data indicates that the decline in life satisfaction from the teens to the fifties is almost four times larger for non-partnered than for partnered individuals, whose life satisfaction essentially follows a slight downward trajectory ...
In:
Vienna Yearbook of Population Research
19 (2021), 293-318
| Andrew E. Clark, Hippolyte d’Albis, Angela Greulich
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Abstract The current study tests experimentally whether people's propensity to trust is biased by uncertainty, complexity, and the presence of numerical anchors in their personal monetary funds. Two hundred and fifty-eight undergraduate Israeli students were randomly assigned to five groups that differed by the type of endowment they received. Participants were asked to indicate how much money ...
In:
Managerial and Decision Economics
44 (2023), 2, 892-905
| Naveh Eskinazi, Miki Malul, Mosi Rosenboim, Tal Shavit
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The current study tested whether the reported lower wellbeing of parents after preterm birth, relative to term birth, is a continuation of a pre-existing difference before pregnancy. Parents from Germany (the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, N = 10,649) and the United Kingdom (British Household Panel Study and Understanding Society, N = 11,012) reported their new-born’s birthweight and gestational ...
In:
Scientific Reports
13 (2023), 1, 21233
| Robert Eves, Nicole Baumann, Ayten Bilgin, Daniel Schnitzlein, David Richter, Dieter Wolke, Sakari Lemola
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At what ages are young people most open to political influence? We test the “formative years” model that underscores the importance of childhood experiences for political development against the “impressionable years” model that asserts the primacy of lessons learned during adolescence. To assess the relative merits of these competing models, we develop a new analytical strategy: the Retrospective ...
In:
Youth & Society
55 (2023), 1, 44-60
| Pavel Bacovsky, Jennifer Fitzgerald
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This study analyzes the causal effect of an increase in the retirement age on official health diagnoses. We exploit a sizable cohort-specific pension reform for women using a Difference-in-Differences approach. The analysis is based on official records covering all individuals insured by the public health system in Germany and including all certified diagnoses by practitioners. This enables us to gain ...
In:
The Journal of the Economics of Ageing
23 (2022), 100403
| Mara Barschkett, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Anna Hammerschmid