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The availability of childcare is a crucial factor for mothers’ labour force participation. While most of the literature examines childcare for preschool children, we specifically focus on primary school-aged children, estimating the effect of formal afternoon care on maternal labour supply. To do so, we use a novel matching technique, entropy balancing, and draw on the rich and longitudinal data of ...
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Empirical Economics
57 (2019), 3, 769-803
| Ludovica Gambaro, Jan Marcus, Frauke Peter
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Does the geographical concentration of ethnic minorities influence their descriptive representation in closed-list systems? Counterintuitive to the idea that single-member district electoral rules are necessary for minorities’ geographical representation, we argue that, in closed-list systems, parties are incentivised to allocate promising list positions to those minority candidates who are based in ...
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International Political Science Review
40 (2019), 5, 643-658
| Lucas Geese, Diana Schacht
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Lifespan theory posits that socio-historical contexts shape individual development. Inline with this proposition, cohort differences favoring later-born cohorts have beenwidely documented for cognition and health. However, little is known about historicalchange in how key resources of psychosocial functioning such as control beliefsdevelop in old age. We pooled data from three independent samples: ...
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Psychology and Aging
34 (2019), 8, 1090-1108
| Denis Gerstorf, Johanna Drewelies, Sandra Düzel, Jacqui Smith, Hans-Werner Wahl, Oliver Schilling, Ute Kunzmann, Jelena S. Siebert, Martin Katzorrek, Peter Eibich, Ilja Demuth, Elisabeth Steinhagen-Thiessen, Gert G. Wagner, Ulman Lindenberger, Jutta Heckhausen, Nilam Ram
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Multilevel models with persons nested in countries are increasingly popular in cross-country research. Recently, social scientists have started to analyze data with a three-level structure: persons at level 1, nested in year-specific country samples at level 2, nested in countries at level 3. By using a country fixed-effects estimator, or an alternative equivalent specification in a random-effects ...
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Sociological Methodology
111 (2019), 166-190
| Marco Giesselmann, Alexander Schmidt-Catran
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Parents’ smoking is harmful to infants’ health. While it is well established that the fraction of mothers smoking during pregnancy is non-negligible, it is an open question of how many parents actually quit smoking to account for the adverse health effects accruing to their offspring. It is also unknown for how long smoking is reduced after first childbirth. This paper investigates these questions ...
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Economics & Human Biology
38 (2020), August 2020, 100874
| Katja Görlitz, Marcus Tamm
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Unhealthy behavior can be extremely costly from a micro- and macroeconomic perspective and exploring the determinants of such behavior is highly important from an economist’s point of view. We examine whether locus of control (LOC) can explain alcohol consumption as an important domain of health behavior. LOC measures how much an individual believes in the causal relationship between her own actions ...
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Empirical Economics
63 (2022), 5, 2785-2815
| Marco Caliendo, Juliane Hennecke
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There has been explosive growth in the analysis of subjective well-being in Economics over the past 40 years. This article reviews some of this growth, and suggests a number of domains in which future research may proceed.
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Review of Income and Wealth
64 (2018), 2, 245-269
| Andrew E. Clark
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This paper investigates the effects of comparison pay on job and life satisfaction with longitudinal survey data from Germany. I use linear fixed effects models to account for unobserved heterogeneity and define the reference groups as individuals within the same occupation and industry. Men and women are expected to behave differently to comparison pay and are therefore investigated separately. Additionally, ...
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Journal of Happiness Studies
20 (2019), 1, 67-80
| Matthias Collischon
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In this article we compare solo self-employment in Germany and the Netherlands. We identify parallels and differences in the structure of solo self-employment and examine to what extent self-employment is related to a precarious situation in terms of earnings and social security. The results show that solo self-employed workers are relatively vulnerable in terms of income and disability insurance in ...
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Journal of Poverty and Social Justice
27 (2019), 2, 177-197
| Wieteke Conen, Karin Schulze Buschoff
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We examine the complex relationship between money and happiness. We find that both permanent income and wealth are better predictors of life satisfaction than current income and wealth. They matter not only in absolute terms but also in comparative terms. However, their relative impacts differ. The first exerts a comparison effect—the higher the permanent income of the reference group, the lower life ...
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Social Indicators Research
148 (2020), 1, 47-66
| Conchita D'Ambrosio, Markus Jäntti, Anthony Lepinteur