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Humans vary substantially in their willingness to take risks. In a combined sample of over 1 million individuals, we conducted genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of general risk tolerance, adventurousness, and risky behaviors in the driving, drinking, smoking, and sexual domains. Across all GWAS, we identified hundreds of associated loci, including 99 loci associated with general risk tolerance. ...
In:
Nature Genetics
51 (2019), 2, 245-257
| Richard Karlsson Linnér, Pietro Biroli, Edward Kong, S. Fleur W. Meddens, Robbee Wedow, et al.
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Studies have found that education differences in women’s body weight increase until middle adulthood. The explanatory mechanisms behind this increase are not well-understood. This study examined the role of education differences in the prevalence of motherhood as a risk factor for weight gain and in vulnerability to its effects on weight gain. We used longitudinal data from the German Socio-economic ...
In:
PloS one
15 (2020), 9, e0236487
| Hannes Kröger, Liliya Leopold
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The spread of the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, poses major challenges for individuals and societies at large. The question now is how individuals and society are dealing with these challenges, and what health, psychological, social, and economic effects they will have to bear. Meaningful answers can only be provided using a generalizable database that contains contextual information such as family ...
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Survey Research Methods
14 (2020), 2, 195-203
| Simon Kühne, Martin Kroh, Stefan Liebig, Sabine Zinn
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This study assessed change in self‐reported Big Five personality traits. We conducted a coordinated integrative data analysis using data from 16 longitudinal samples, comprising a total sample of over 60 000 participants. We coordinated models across multiple datasets and fit identical multi‐level growth models to assess and compare the extent of trait change over time. Quadratic change was assessed ...
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European Journal of Personality
34 (2020), 3, 301-321
| Eileen K. Graham, Sara J. Weston, Denis Gerstorf, Tomiko B. Yoneda, Tom Booth, et al.
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Decisions on interventions or policy alternatives affecting health can be informed by economic evaluations, like cost-benefit or cost-utility analyses. In this context, there is a need for valid estimates of the monetary equivalent value of health (gains), which are often expressed in € per quality-adjusted life years (QALYs). Obtaining such estimates remains methodologically challenging, with a recent ...
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Health Economics
30 (2021), 8, 1849-1870
| Sebastian Himmler, Jannis Stöckel, Job van Exel, Werner B. F. Brouwer
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Labour market access is a crucial aspect of integration. Among other things, it providesmigrants with economic resources to participate in societal life in the hostcountry. This chapter explores the factors of labour market access for refugees inGermany. First, we provide a brief overview of how labour market access is determinedby legal status. Second, we explore individual aspects of labour market ...
In:
Annette Korntheuer, Paul Pritchard, Débora B. Maehler, Lori Wilkinson ,
Refugees in Canada and Germany: From Research to Policies and Practice (Gesis-Schriftenreihe, 25)
Mannheim: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
189-201
| Jannes Jacobsen, Magdalena Krieger, Nicolas Legewie
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In diesem Artikel analysieren wir individuelle Faktoren und situative Bedingungen, unter denen Einwanderer mehr oder weniger wahrscheinlich in aufnahmeland-spezifisches Humankapital investieren. Theoretisch stützen wir unsere Analysen auf einen Ansatz des Humankapital-Investitionsmodells von Zuwanderern und verbinden diesen mit einem Basismodell für rationale Bildungsentscheidungen. Mit Hilfe eines ...
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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
73 (2021), June 2021, 100610
| Andreas Damelang, Yuliya Kosyakova
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Following the fall of the Iron Curtain it was important for the acceptance of the new economic and political system that the former Communist elites did not maintain their privileges, and that protesters, who helped to overturn the old system, improved their situation. With newly available panel data on East Germany’s socialist past, the German Democratic Republic, we analyze how former Communist elites, ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2020,
(SOEPpapers 1102)
| Max Deter
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Since the labor market reforms around 2005, known as the Hartz reforms, Germany has experienced declining unemployment rates. However, little is known about the reforms’ effect on individual life satisfaction of unemployed workers. This study applies difference-in-difference estimations and finds a decrease in life satisfaction after the reforms that is more pronounced for male unemployed in west Germany. ...
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Journal of Happiness Studies
22 (2021), 4, 1819-1838
| Max Deter
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Based on a complementary mixed-methods design, the dissertation sheds light on the relationship between meat consumption practices and consumers’ socioeconomic position. In a first step, two large-scale data sets, the German Einkommens- und Verbrauchsstichprobe (EVS) 2013 and the Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP) 2016, are used to establish empirical relationships between meat consumption practices and consumers’ ...
2020,
| Laura Einhorn