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This study examines the role of occupational classes in the Gender Wealth Gap (GWG). Despite rising interest in gender differences in wealth, the central role of occupations in restricting and enabling its accumulation has been neglected thus far. Drawing on the German Socio-Economic Panel, this study employs quantile regressions and decomposition techniques. It finds explanatory power of occupational ...
In:
Feminist Economics
27 (2021), 4, 114-147
| Nora Waitkus, Lara Minkus
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This article explores the composition of the personal social networks and their interrelation with the family context of recently arrived refugees in Germany. Using the Refugee Sample of the German Socio-Economic Panel (2017) and performing logistic regression analyses, the findings suggest that refugees living without their partner, children, or extended family in Germany are more likely to have at ...
In:
Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies
22 (2024), 1, 134-148
| Lenore Sauer, Elisabeth K. Kraus
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Lazear's jack-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship predicts that individuals with a more balanced skill set are more likely to enter entrepreneurship. This relationship is often explained by either the investment or the endowment hypothesis. Both hypotheses describe skill balancing by those more interested in entrepreneurship per se. Previous studies which have attempted to determine the relative ...
In:
Applied Economics
54 (2022), 10, 1145-1161
| Lorna Syme, Elisabeth Mueller
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An emerging literature is experimenting with using survey response behavior as a proxy for hard-to-measure abilities. We contribute to this literature by formalizing this idea and evaluating its benefits and risks. Using a standard and nationally representative survey from Australia, we demonstrate that the survey item-response rate (SIRR), a straightforward summary measure of response behavior, varies ...
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Journal of Business & Economic Statistics
41 (2023), 1, 197-212
| Sonja C. de New, Stefanie Schurer
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This dissertation provides three examples of how using naturally occurring datasets, data collected independent of the consideration of researchers, can answer important research questions. These types of data are called “administrative records” or “organic data” and include sources as diverse as W2 tax filings, stock prices, and Google searches (see Groves, 2011). In the first example, The Dog that ...
2013,
| David Hedengren
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What survey respondents choose not to answer (item nonresponse) provides a useful task based measure of cognitive ability (e.g., IQ) and non-cognitive ability (e.g., Conscientiousness). Using the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97), we find consistent correlation between item nonresponse and traditional measures of IQ and Conscientiousness. ...
2012,
(SSRN Working Paper)
| David Hedengren, Thomas Stratmann
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Frequent social contact has been associated with better health and longer life. It remains unclear though whether there is an optimal contact frequency, beyond which contact is no longer positively associated with health and longevity. The present research explored this question by examining nonlinear associations of social contact frequency with health and longevity. Study 1 (N ∼ 350,000) demonstrated ...
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Social Psychological and Personality Science
12 (2021), 6, 1058-1070
| Olga Stavrova, Dongning Ren
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In this article, we examine whether and how the institutional context matters when understanding individuals’ giving to philanthropic organizations. We posit that both the individuals’ propensity to give and the amounts given are higher in countries with a stronger institutional context for philanthropy. We examine key factors of formal and informal institutional contexts for philanthropy at both the ...
In:
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
50 (2021), 4, 697-728
| Pamala Wiepking, Femida Handy, Sohyun Park, Michaela Neumayr, René Bekkers, et al.
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In the fight against climate change, renewable energy has been subsidised in many countries. With the costs passed onto consumers, governments are paying those, for example, who instal domestic solar panels on top of their homes and feed electricity back into the system at preferential rates. We know that substantial amounts of income flow into households with solar installations as a result, but we ...
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Political Studies Review
20 (2022), 3, 525-533
| Resul Umit
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Researchers attempting to survey refugees over time face methodological issues because of the transient nature of the target population. In this article, we examine whether applying smartphone technology could alleviate these issues. We interviewed 529 refugees and afterward invited them to four follow-up mobile web surveys and to install a research app for passive mobile data collection. Our main ...
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Sociological Methods & Research
50 (2021), 4, 1863-1894
| Florian Keusch, Mariel M. Leonard, Christoph Sajons, Susan Steiner