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This study investigates the magnitude and persistence of elevated post-separation residential mobility (i.e. residential instability) in five countries (Australia, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK) with similar levels of economic development, but different welfare provisions and housing markets. While many studies examine residential changes related to separation in selected individual ...
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European Journal of Population
37 (2021), 1, 121-150
| Hill Kulu, Júlia Mikolai, Michael J. Thomas, Sergi Vidal, Christine Schnor, Didier Willaert, Fieke H. L. Visser, Clara H. Mulder
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In a recent genome-wide association study (GWAS), three polymorphisms (rs3756290, RAPGEF6; rs2075677, CSE1L; rs4958581, NMUR2) were suggested as potentially being related to subjective-well-being and life satisfaction. Additionally, associations between the 5-HTTLPR polymorphism (serotonin transporter) and subjective well-being have been reported in other previous studies. In the current study, we ...
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Journal of Happiness Studies
22 (2021), 1, 305-322
| Bernd Lachmann, Anna Doebler, Cornelia Sindermann, Rayna Sariyska, Andrew Cooper, Heidrun Haas, Christian Montag
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In this article, we introduce a new, highly flexible model to analyze distributions with heaps and censoring points, which we call the generalized Craggit model. Distributions with heaps and censoring points can be found in many social science applications. For example, such distributions can be the result of sequential or multistep rating processes. Our model is a combination of a Craggit model and ...
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MethodsX
7 (2020), 100868
| Volker Lang, Martin Groß
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This study examines the association between parental separations during childhood and economic wealth of adult children. We provide a new test of this relationship and address two unresolved debates in the literature concerning (1) the pathways linking parental separation and adult children’s wealth and (2) the relevance of the timing of exposure. We use data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics ...
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Social Forces
99 (2021), 3, 1176-1208
| Philipp M. Lersch, Janeen Baxter
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This study develops and applies a framework for analyzing variability in individuals’ occupational prestige trajectories and changes in average variability between birth cohorts. It extends previous literature focused on typical patterns of intragenerational mobility over the life course to more fully examine intracohort differentiation. Analyses are based on rich life course data for men and women ...
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American Sociological Review
85 (2020), 6, 1084-1116
| Philipp M. Lersch, Wiebke Schulz, George Leckie
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Few studies have examined birth order effects on personality in countries that are not Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD). However, theories have generally suggested that interculturally universal family dynamics are the mechanism behind birth order effects, and prominent theories such as resource dilutionwould predict even stronger linear effects in poorer countries. Here, ...
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European Journal of Personality
35 (2021), 2, 234-248
| Laura J. Botzet, Julia M. Rohrer, Ruben Arslan
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Socioeconomic status (SES) and health during childhood have been consistently observed to be associated with health in old age in many studies. However, the exact mechanisms behind these two associations have not yet been fully understood. The key challenge is to understand how childhood SES and health are associated. Furthermore, data on childhood factors and life course mediators are sometimes unavailable, ...
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Advances in Life Course Research
31 (2017), March 2017, 1-10
| Eduwin Pakpahan, Rasmus Hoffmann, Hannes Kröger
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This study focuses on two main questions. First, do non-cohabiting relationships have an effect on mental and physical health? And second, do non-cohabiting relationships affect health in a similar way as cohabitation and marriage? To differentiate between the selection effects of healthier individuals into a couple relationship and the causal effects of couple relationships on health, we test hypotheses ...
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European Sociological Review
36 (2020), 2, 303-316
| Ingmar Rapp, Johannes Stauder
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Research on the consequences of starting in overeducation often focuses on either secondary or tertiary graduates. We focus on both within one country, Germany. While matching and search models imply the improvement of initial overeducation, human capital theory and stigma associated with overeducation predict entrapment. The strongly skill- and occupation-based labour market for the vocationally trained ...
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European Sociological Review
36 (2020), 3, 413–428
| Paul Schmelzer, Thorsten Schneider
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In this article, we analyze whether the financial strain of poverty systematically alters the allocation of attention. We address two types of attention: attention to unexpectedly occurring events and attention to primary tasks that require focus. We show that the poor are significantly more likely than the rich to notice unexpected events. In addition, we do not find robust evidence that poverty increases ...
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Economics & Human Biology
41 (2021), 100987
| Stefanie Y. Schmitt, Markus G. Schlatterer