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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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The article provides an overview of the results of cross-sectional and longitudinal data sets concerning sport participation of the elderly in Germany with a focus on correlations of sport participation with gender, age, and social class. A tabular overview lists the most central studies with their study design and publications from 2000 onwards. Findings regarding the motivations for sport participation ...
In:
European Review of Aging and Physical Activity
8 (2011), 2, 83-91
| Ulrike Tischer, Ilse Hartmann-Tews, Claudia Combrink
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Integration of immigrants is a two-way process involving immigrants and the host country society. An underexplored question is how events of xenophobic violence in the host country affect the integration of immigrants. For this purpose, I exploit a unique series of anti-immigrant attacks in the early 1990s in West Germany. Using a difference-in-differences matching strategy, I find that macro exposure ...
Bonn:
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA),
2018,
(IZA DP No. 11781)
| Max Friedrich Steinhardt