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Many previous authors concluded that the middle class is disappearing as income polarization is increasing. Using the housing cycle of 2001--2007 and national panels for Australia, the United States, Germany, and Switzerland, I show that polarization is highly sensitive to housing cycles, affecting the ranking of countries. I then show that including non-monetary income from housing (imputed rent) ...
2021,
(Research Gate Preprint)
| Sergey Alexeev
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Within the Preparation Module for the Einstein Center for Population Diversity (ECPD), diverse research institutions came together to provide new survey instruments for the innovation sample in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP-IS). With the goal of collecting insightful information about future narratives and family care, central topics of the ECPD research endeavor, factorial survey was chosen ...
Berlin:
Hertie School,
2021,
| Enrique Alonso-Perez, Olan McEvoy, Vincent Ramos, Julie Lorraine O'Sullivan, Stefan Liebig, Michaela Kreyenfeld, Philipp Lersch, Giacomo Bazzani, Raffaele Guetto, Daniele Vignoli, Jan Heisig, Heike Solga, Paul Gellert
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Women have been found to be, on average, less interested in politics and less politically active than men, which might reduce the representation of women’s interests in a democracy. In order to enhance the understanding of these gender gaps, this preregistered study analyzes the role of personality differences for gender gaps in political interest and activity.I use a large representative sample of ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2021,
(SOEPpapers 1150)
| Adam Ayaita
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Two traditional options for reforming Ehegattensplitting, the joint taxation of married couples with full income splitting, are de facto income splitting (Realsplitting) or individual taxation with a transferable personal allowance. However, these proposals do not significantly reduce the marginal tax burden on the secondary earner’s income and therefore only minimally encourage married women to participate ...
In:
DIW Weekly Report
10 (2020), 41, 423-432
| Stefan Bach, Björn Fischer, Peter Haan, Katharina Wrohlich
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Workers wrongly anchor their beliefs about outside options on their current wage. In particular, low-paid workers underestimate wages elsewhere. We document this anchoring bias by eliciting workers’ beliefs in a representative survey in Germany and comparing them to measures of actual outside options in linked administrative labor market data. In an equilibrium model, such anchoring can give rise to ...
In:
Quarterly Journal of Economics
139 (2024), 3, 1505-1556
| Simon Jäger, Christopher Roth, Nina Roussille, Benjamin Schoefer
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Single mothers often experience precarious financial conditions. However, it is not fully understood to what extent separation is the cause of these conditions versus being their consequence. Estimating an endogenous switching regression model based on a sample of 626 separated and 5,525 non-separated mothers drawn from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984-2018, we disentangle the roles of causation ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2021,
(SOEPpapers 1147)
| Antonia Birkeneder, Christina Boll
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This paper analyses the relationship between locus of control (LOC) and the demand for supplementary health insurance. Drawing on longitudinal data from Germany, we find robust evidence that individuals having an internal LOC are more likely to take up supplementary private health insurance (SUPP). The increase in the probability to have a SUPP due to one standard deviation increase in the measure ...
Bonn:
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA),
2021,
(IZA DP No. 14633)
| Eric Bonsang, Joan Costa-Font, Sonja C. de New
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This paper examines the relationship between locus of control (LOC) and the demand for supplementary health insurance (SUPP). Drawing on longitudinal data from Germany, we document robust evidence that individuals internal LOC increases the take up of supplementary private health insurance (SUPP). We find that the effect of one standard deviation increase in the measure of internal LOC on the probability ...
In:
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
204 (2022), 476-489
| Eric Bonsang, Joan Costa-Font
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In 2015, Germany introduced a statutory hourly minimum wage that was not only universally binding but also set at a relatively high level. By focusing on the short-run effects of the German Minimum Wage Reform, I estimate its impact on employment. Using a difference-in-differences framework, I exploit variation in the regional treatment intensity, assuming that the stronger a minimum wage ‘bites’ into ...
2021,
| Silvio Ceron
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Watching television is the most time-consuming human activity besides work but its role for individual well-being is unclear. Negative consequences portrayed in the literature raise the question whether this popular pastime constitutes an economic good or bad, and hence serves as a prime example of irrational behavior reducing individual health and happiness. Using rich panel data, we are the first ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2021,
(SOEPpapers 1148)
| Adrian Chadi, Manuel Hoffmann