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Social capital is a resource derived from a person's social network and is important for various outcomes. Social capital declines over time and requires investments to avoid further declines or to increase the stock. However, certain life events can negatively affect social capital. This paper analyzes how informal caregiving, defined as unpaid assistance to persons who cannot perform the usual ...
In:
Social Science Research
85 (2020), January 2020, 102319
| Andreas Eberl
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Abstract Even in the online dating era, individuals will seek intimate partners who live physically nearby. This paper considers the validity of different partner market measures in German NUTS-3 regions; the often used sex ratio is contrasted with different versions of the availability ratio (AR) and versions of the partner market density (PMD). The paper discusses (a) how conceptional aspects of ...
In:
Population, Space and Place
25 (2019), 4, e2178
| Jan Eckhard, Johannes Stauder
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Major economic, environmental, or social shocks induce uncertainty, which in turn may impact economic development and may require institutional change. Based on the idea that catastrophic events (CEs) affect people’s perceptions of reality and judgments about the future, this paper analyzes the effect of CEs on people’s worries in terms of social, economic, and environmental issues. In particular, ...
In:
Empirical Economics
59 (2020), 2, 951-975
| Andree Ehlert, Jan Seidel, Ursula Weisenfeld
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Previous research has shown that women providing family care tend to decrease paid work. We take the opposite perspective and examine how current and previous family care tasks influence women’s likelihood to (re-)enter employment or to increase working hours. Family care is defined as caring for an ill, disabled or frail elderly partner, parent, or other family member. Using German Socio-Economic ...
In:
Journal of Family Issues
41 (2020), 9, 1387-1419
| Ulrike Ehrlich, Katja Möhring, Sonja Drobnič
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We here explore the link between individual concerns about crime and the distribution of income in Germany. We make use of 1995-2017 microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to show that both individual polarization and relative deprivation have statistically-significant effects on reported concerns about crime, while relative satisfaction plays no role. At the aggregate level, the main ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2020,
(SOEPpapers 1071)
| Michelle Acampora, Conchita D'Ambrosio, Markus M. Grabka
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We analyze self-selection of refugees and irregular migrants and test our theory in the context of the European refugee crisis. Using unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration and Gallup World Polls, we provide the first large-scale evidence on reasons to emigrate, and the self-selection and sorting of refugees and irregular migrants. Refugees and female irregular migrants are ...
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Journal of Development Economics
152 (2021), (September 2021), 102681
| Cevat Giray Aksoy, Panu Poutvaara
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This paper investigates the role of biased health perceptions as driving forces of risky health behavior. We define absolute and relative health perception biases, illustrate their measurement in surveys and provide evidence on their relevance. Next, we decompose the theoretical effect into its extensive and intensive margin: When the extensive margin dominates, people (wrongly) believe they are healthy ...
In:
Journal of Health Economics
76 (2021), 102425
| Patrick Arni, Davide Dragone, Lorenz Goette, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
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Abstract In line with the social investment principle, becoming a parent should lead to more mature behaviour and an increase in conscientiousness, agreeableness, and emotional stability. However, previous research provided mixed results that do not support this idea. Here, we used data from a nationally representative household panel study from Germany (N = 19 875) to examine whether becoming a parent ...
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European Journal of Personality
35 (2021), 1, 85-102
| Eva Asselmann, Jule Specht
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We study the impact of the macroeconomic environment on mental health in Germany. Endogeneity concerns are tackled using a shift-share instrumental variables approach in which exposure to macroeconomic fluctuations is estimated from regional variations in historical industry sector composition. Estimation results reveal strong procyclical effects on the 12-item short form survey’s mental health component ...
In:
European Economic Review
140 (2020), November 2021, 103915
| Daniel Avdic, Sonja C. de New, Daniel A. Kamhöfer
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Does the federal minimum wage in Germany introduced in 2015 improve the income situation of low income households and reduce in-work poverty? Previous literature on its distributional impact was either focused on earnings and hourly wages (e.g. Caliendo et al., 2017), or is based on ex-ante simulations (e.g. Müller and Steiner, 2013). This paper provides systematic descriptive ex-post evidence on the ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2019,
(DIW Discussion Paper 1805)
| Teresa Backhaus, Kai-Uwe Müller