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This paper investigates whether individual control-perception affects the probability of becoming poor, and vice versa, whether poverty experiences can be detrimental to these traits later on. The former relation is intuitive as control related traits underlay many idiosyncratic determinants of poverty. Though traits like control-perception are known to stabilize towards adulthood, the latter association ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2015,
(SOEPpapers 794)
| Hendrik Thiel, Stephan L. Thomsen
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This paper investigates the role of relative comparisons in health status for individual health satisfaction. Previous research stresses the importance of interdependencies in subjective well-being and health arising from positional preferences and status effects, social health norms, and comparison processes. Using representative longitudinal data from a German population survey, we estimate empirical ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2014,
(SOEPpapers 695)
| Lars Thiel
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The aim of this study is to estimate the causal effect of cultural participation on health status. Cultural activities may directly impact upon health through palliative coping or substituting health-compromising behaviors. Cultural engagement may also facilitate the development of social networks, which can improve health via social support and the dissemination of social health norms. Previous estimates ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2015,
(SOEPpapers 767)
| Lars Thiel
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This study analyzes the role of social capital in buffering the negative relationship between informal-care provision and mental health. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and fixed-effect regression models, we show that those individuals who socialize more frequently enjoy better mental health. We also find that stronger social ties moderate the negative association between caregiving ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2016,
(SOEPpapers 860)
| Lars Thiel
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This thesis presents three empirical essays on the wider social determinants of health status. It analyzes the relevance of cultural, social and psychological determinants of health and their implications for health policy in Germany. These factors reflect the dependence of health status and subjective health assessment on the individual’s social environment. The empirical analyses rely on large-scale ...
2016,
| Lars Thiel
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The German population is ageing due to decreasing birth rates and increasing life expectancy. To sustain the German pension system, legal retirement age is increased step by step to 67 years. This raises questions about how to enable and motivate older individuals to work that long. Hence, it is important to understand whether they represent a homogeneous group that can be addressed through specific ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2015,
(SOEPpapers 775)
| Paula Thieme, Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich
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As from a political economy perspective, politicians often fail to implement structural reforms, we investigate if the resistance to reform is based on the differences in the risk preferences of voters, politicians, and bureaucrats. Based on the empirical results of a survey of the population in Germany, 175 members of the Federal German Parliament (Bundestag), and 106 officials (“bureaucrats”) from ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin (German Institute for Economic Research),
2017,
(DIW Discussion Paper 1688)
| Tobias Thomas, Moritz Heß, Gert G. Wagner
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From a political economy perspective, politicians often fail to implement structural reforms. In this contribution we investigate if the resistance to reform is based on the differences in the risk preferences of voters, politicians, and bureaucrats. Based on three surveys among the German electorate, 175 members of the Federal German Parliament and 106 officials from German ministries, this is not ...
In:
Review of Economics - Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftswissenschaften
68 (2017), 3, 167-179
| Tobias Thomas, Moritz Hess, Gert G. Wagner
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Identity can be an important driving force for educational performance. Immigrants and their children face the challenge of identifying with their host country’s culture. This paper examines whether young immigrants and their children who identify stronger with the German culture are more likely to increase their educational outcomes. We use a concept of ethnic identity which is designed to capture ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2013,
(SOEPpapers 622)
| Anna-Elisabeth Thum
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Educational attainment, length of stay, differences in national background and language skills play an acknowledged important role for the integration of immigrants. But integration is also a social process, which suggests that psychological factors are relevant. This paper explores whether and to what extent immigrants and their children need to believe in their ability to control their own success. ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2014,
(SOEPpapers 723)
| Anna-Elisabeth Thum