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As population aging will likely lead to an increasing number of people in need of care, the demand for informal care is expected to rise. In this context, it is often discussed whether financial incentives can motivate more individuals to assume caregiving responsibilities. We analyze the potential effect of financial incentives on the provision of informal care by estimating a structural model with ...
In:
Health Economics
34 (2025), 3, 442–455
| Mara Rebaudo, Lena Calahorrano, Kathrin Hausmann
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We use quarterly panel data from the COME-HERE survey covering five European countries to analyse three facets of the experience of loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic. First, in terms of prevalence, loneliness peaked in April 2020, followed by a U-shape pattern in the rest of 2020, and then remained relatively stable throughout 2021 and 2022. We then establish the individual determinants of loneliness ...
In:
Economics & Human Biology
55 (2024), 101427
| Alessio Rebechi, Anthony Lepinteur, Andrew E. Clark, Nicholas Rohde, Claus Vögele, Conchita D’Ambrosio
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Inspired by the literature on social polarisation and residential segregation we draw on a probabilistic approach to pursue the evolution of household location preferences in West Germany. Using microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the period 1984-2020 we demonstrate that structural economic change was accompanied by an increasing preference for residence in compact housing close ...
Essen:
RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung,
2024,
(Ruhr Economic Papers #1126)
| Uwe Neumann, Christoph M. Schmidt
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Chapter 1: Germany's efforts to curb international tax evasion. We evaluate the impact of regulatory attempts by German authorities to combat international tax evasion and report a 32-34% reduction of tax haven deposits in German banks as a reaction to bilateral information exchange. We test for reactions in monthly cross-border liabilities of German banks against non-residents employing a new ...
2022,
| Hannes Fauser
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I find that self-selection into teacher training programs in Germany is co-determined with ideology. Incoming teacher-trainees are more left-wing in ideology and political preferences than the average incoming university student. I find also that teacher training programs exert a socialization effect: as compared to the average student, teacher trainees’ views are reinforced and they become more left-wing ...
In:
European Journal of Political Economy
64 (2020), 101902
| Dalila Lindov
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In Germany, there is a large wealth gap between East and West Germans as well as a gap in life satisfaction, with people in East Germany reporting to be less satisfied. This article sheds light on the role of different levels of wealth and their association with affective well-being. On a wider scale, this article examines psychological consequences of wealth inequality between societal groups. Longitudinal ...
In:
Ayline Heller, Peter Schmidt ,
Thirty Years After the Berlin Wall. German Unification and Transformation Research.
London: Routledge
228-244
| Christoph Kasinger, Lisa Braunheim, Manfred E. Beutel, Elmar Brähler
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This paper analyzes the distribution and composition of pre-tax national income in Germany since 1992, combining personal income tax returns, household survey data, and national accounts. Inequality rose from the 1990s to the late 2000s due to falling labor incomes among the bottom 50% and rising incomes in the top 10%. This trend reversed after 2007 as labor incomes across the bottom 90% increased. ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2024,
(DIW Discussion Paper 2102)
| Stefan Bach, Charlotte Bartels, Theresa Neef
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Socioeconomic disparities in children's academic achievement are well established, but the underlying mechanisms are less well understood. We used linked data from the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) and the National Pupil Database (NPD) with causal mediation analysis to determine the extent to which school absences contribute to socioeconomic achievement gaps. Using different achievement measures ...
2024,
(OSF Preprints)
| Jascha Dräger, Markus Klein, Edward Sosu
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This work aims to provide an insight into the Household Budget Survey in Portugal, and within the European Statistical System, and in other countries, and provide actionable recommendations for the upcoming methodological revision of the Household Budget Survey in Portugal. The HBS is revised at 5 year intervals, and is currently done in the form of a traditional proxy survey with an SRS reflecting ...
2024,
| Tingi Gurung
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Many may believe a higher income will make them happier. While this is true to some extent, studies show that subjective well-being (SWB) tends to increase at a decreasing rate. Included in many studies is not only the income of the individuals, but also the income of people in their surroundings, or the so-called relative income. Whereas most studies show that our SWB decreases as the income of others ...
2025,
| Sandra Durkovic, Vilma Svanberg