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How does risk preference change across the life span? We address this question by conducting a coordinated analysis to obtain the first meta-analytic estimates of adults longitudinal age differences in risk-taking propensity around the world. We report results from 26 longitudinal samples (12 panels; 187,733 unique respondents; 19 countries) covering general and domain-specific risk-taking propensity ...
2022,
(PsyArXiv Preprints)
| Yunrui Liu, Alexandra Bagaïni, Gayoung Son, Madlaina Kapoor, Rui Mata
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Abstract We investigate the link between personality traits (PTs) and fertility, accounting for the possible interplay with other key life course events. Using data from German Socio-Economic Panel survey, we build sequence-type representations of fertility, union and job careers between the ages of 20 and 40. We rely on multichannel sequence analysis (MSA) and on the Partitioning around Medoids algorithm ...
In:
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society)
185 (2022), 3, 1344-1369
| Letizia Mencarini, Raffaella Piccarreta, Marco Le Moglie
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This dissertation consists of four chapters that contribute to applied microeconomics. My co-authors and I combine theoretical and experimental methods to study behavioral paradoxes and market inefficiencies. Chapters 1 and 2 contribute to the understanding of image concerns. They study the dynamic implications of how individuals perceive themselves and are perceived by others. Chapter 3 focuses on ...
2022,
| Vasilisa Petrishcheva
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Why do consumers make different decisions even when socioeconomic conditions are similar? The present article examines the effects of human values—as formulations of motivational goals—on the decision to purchase electricity storage for a photovoltaic system, a phenomenon hardly explored in prior research regarding high-priced household investments. About 50 percent of photovoltaic-system owners in ...
In:
Journal of Consumer Behaviour
21 (2022), 4, 909-926
| Stefan Poier, Anna Maria Nikodemska-Wołowik, Michał Suchanek
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The reunification of the socialist German Democratic Republic and the capitalist Federal Republic of Germany presents a unique setting for studying the impact of socio-economic and political change on migration. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the interdisciplinary literature on migration between East and West Germany since reunification, conducted in disciplines such as economics, demography, ...
In:
Comparative Population Studies
47 (2022), 185-210
| Matthias Rosenbaum-Feldbrügge, Nico Stawarz, Nikola Sander
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Die Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Familie ist eine der größten Herausforderungen und gleichzeitig Gelingensbedingung für Geschlechtergerechtigkeit auf dem Arbeitsmarkt und im familiären Bereich. Die vorliegende Dissertation verdeutlicht in drei empirischen Papieren die Relevanz von Sorgearbeit für die Arbeitsmarktpartizipation von Frauen und Männern, sowie die Rolle von Unternehmen für das Unterfangen, ...
2022,
| Claire Samtleben
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Exploiting the random allocation of asylum seekers to different locations in Germany, we study the impact of right-wing voting on refugees’ integration. We find that in municipalities with more voting for the right-wing AfD, refugees have worse economic and social integration. These impacts are largest for groups targeted by AfD campaigns and refugees are also more likely to suffer from harassment and ...
In:
Labour Economics
87 (2024), April 2024, 102465
| Pia Schilling, Steven Stillman
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This chapter surveys recent literature on the drivers of mothers’ labour supply in OECD countries. We present a number of facts on the variations across time and across countries of family composition and mothers’ employment. We aim to answer key questions on their decision to return to work after childbirth: How is the decision taken within the household? What are the contemporaneous and longer term ...
In:
Klaus F. Zimmermann ,
Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics
Cham: Springer
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| Hélène Turon
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Health is an important non-monetary outcome of education surveyed by the National Education Panel Study (NEPS). In addition to its effects in adulthood (see Lettau et al., 2020), the interplay between education and health also plays a role for children and adolescents. For this reason, the NEPS provides longitudinal data on various aspects of health, education, relevant control variables, and mechanisms ...
Bamberg:
Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBI),
2022,
(NEPS Survey Paper No. 95)
| Jacqueline Kroh, Michael Gebel, Guido Heineck
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This paper investigates the link between non-standard employment (NSE) and the risk of partnership dissolution, applying event history analysis to data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey for the period 2001–2016. It moves beyond previous studies by (a) considering a broader range of employment types, including fixed-term ...
In:
Journal of Family Issues
44 (2023), 10, 2746-2773
| Inga Laß