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A body of literature reports higher rates of depression and neuroticism in female samples compared to male samples. Numerous studies have investigated the role of prenatal sex hormone exposure in this sex difference, using the ratio between the second and fourth digit of the hand (“2D:4D”) as a putative marker. However, the sample sizes of those studies were mostly small and results remained inconclusive. ...
In:
Scientific Reports
10 (2020), 11136
| Leopold Maria Lautenbacher, Levent Neyse
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This is a longitudinal study of changes in smoking behaviour as well as becoming overweight/obese (OW/OB) and the strength of their association with personal factors such as self-control, mental health, and socioeconomic status (SES) versus their connection with the behaviour of other household members. Furthermore, we investigate that in terms of roles within a household, who is more vulnerable towards ...
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SSM - Population Health
10 (2020), 100558
| Ida G. Monfared, Kenneth Harttgen, Sebastian Vollmer
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Past research has shown a positive association between education and well-being. Much of this research has focused on the cognitive component of well-being (i.e., life satisfaction) as outcome. On the other hand, the affective component, that is, how often and intensively people experience positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA) in their everyday lives, has received far less attention. Therefore, ...
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Social Indicators Research
153 (2021), 1, 227-250
| Dave Möwisch, Annette Brose, Florian Schmiedek
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We explore whether retrospective voting is related to voters’ democratic experience. To this end, we compare the voting behavior in West Germany to the voting behavior in the formerly non-democratic East Germany after a disaster relief program addressing a flood in 2013. Our analysis reveals a 2.2% (or 0.9 percentage points) increase in the vote share for the incumbent party in the flooded municipalities ...
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European Economic Review
133 (2021), 103665
| Michael Neugart, Johannes Rode
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Panel attrition poses major threats to the survey quality of panel studies. Many features have been introduced to keep panel attrition as low as possible. Based on a random sample of refugees, a highly mobile population, we investigate whether using a mobile phone application improves address quality and response behavior. Various features, including geo-tracking, collecting email addresses and adress ...
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Social Science Computer Review
39 (2021), 4, 721-743
| Jannes Jacobsen, Simon Kühne
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Because of their often-dramatic, life-threatening flight patterns and resulting pronounced health disparities, many refugees have a great need for medical treatment after arrival to their host countries. In Germany, refugees whose asylum application is not approved or whose duration of stay has not yet exceeded 15 months must request doctor visits, with a considerable amount of bureaucracy, from the ...
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International Migration Review
55 (2021), 3, 812-842
| Philipp Jaschke, Yuliya Kosyakova
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To better understand the occurrence of major changes in people´s lives like job changes or relocations, we test a model of motivational consequences of life and domain satisfaction using data of the German socio-economic panel study (SOEP) (waves 2005–2015; Ns between 2,201 and 28,720). We examined job and location changes as outcomes that people may actively initiate as a result of dissatisfaction ...
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PLOS ONE
15 (2020), 9, e0238992
| Till Kaiser, Marie Hennecke, Maike Luhmann
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Although there is strong support for renewable energy plants, they are often met with local resistance. We quantify the externalities of renewable energy plants using wellbeing data. We focus on the example of biogas, one of the most frequently deployed technologies besides wind and solar. To this end, we combine longitudinal household data with novel panel data on more than 13,000 installations in ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2020,
(SOEPpapers 1116)
| Christian Krekel, Julia Rechlitz, Johannes Rode, Alexander Zerrahn
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Background: Neighbourhood has risen as a relevant determinant of health. While there is substantial evidence that environmental factors affect health, far less evidence of the role of social mechanisms in the causal chain between neighbourhood characteristics and health is available. Method: To evaluate the role of social cohesion as a mediator between four different neighbourhood characteristics and ...
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BMC Public Health
20 (2020), 1, 1043
| Sara Kress, Oliver Razum, Kim Alexandra Zolitschka, Jürgen Breckenkamp, Odile Sauzet
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Übergewicht im Kindesalter ist ein zentraler Indikator für das Wohlbefinden von Kindern, der häufig mit der Beschäftigung von Müttern in Verbindung gebracht wurde, da diese sich potentiell auf die Ernährung und die körperliche Aktivität von Kindern auswirkt. Basierend auf Daten des Sozio-ökonomischen Panels zu Kindern, die zwischen 2002 und 2011 geboren wurden, untersucht diese Studie, wie sich die ...
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Journal of Family Research
32 (2020), 2, 307-329
| Michael Kühhirt