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Social interactions are crucial to affective well-being. Still, people vary interindividually and intraindividually in their social needs. Social need regulation theories state that mismatches between momentary social desire and actual social contact result in lowered affect, yet empirical knowledge about this dynamic regulation is limited. In a gender- and age-heterogenous sample, German-speaking ...
In:
Emotion
24 (2024), 3, 878-893
| Michael D. Krämer, Yannick Roos, Ramona Schoedel, Cornelia Wrzus, David Richter
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Germany has emerged over centuries as a central European country marked by political shifts that have resulted in deep regional fragmentation. The political burdens of two world wars led, in the late 1940s, to a separation of the country into the communist German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the western Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), a separation that ended with German (re)unification in 1990. ...
In:
Graciela H. Tonon ,
Urban Inequalities: A Multidimensional and International Perspective
Cham: Springer International Publishing
91-136
| Peter Krause
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Objective: This chapter introduces the reader to the Special Issue Female Employment and Migration in European Countries. Background: While there is a large body of research on the labour market performance of male migrants, women’s employment behaviour after migration has only recently moved into the focus of attention. Method: This Special Issue draws on various research methods and data sources, ...
In:
Journal of Family Research
33 (2021), 2, 230-251
| Michaela Kreyenfeld, Claudia Diehl, Martin Kroh, Johannes Giesecke
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The relationship between urbanization, the brain, and human mental health is subject to intensive debate in the current scientific literature. Particularly, since mood and anxiety disorders as well as schizophrenia are known to be more frequent in urban compared to rural regions. Here, we investigated the association between cerebral signatures, mental health and land use indicators (Urban Fabric and ...
In:
Landscape and Urban Planning
214 (2021), 8
| Simone Kühn, Sandra Düzel, Anna Mascherek, Peter Eibich, Christian Krekel, Jens Kolbe, Jan Goebel, Jürgen Gallinat, Gert G. Wagner, Ulman Lindenberger
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This study provides the first population-representative quasi-experimental estimates on the impact of housing upgrades on occupant health. We analyze the exceptional period of renovations in East Germany following the German reunification during the 1990s. Triggered by one of the largest governmental loan programs in history, 3.6 million dwellings were renovated, focussing on upgrades to the building ...
In:
Journal of Health Economics
98 (2024), 102936
| Steffen Künn, Juan Palacios
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In many countries, temporary work is negatively associated with fertility. Yet, the mechanisms underlying this relationship remain poorly understood. This study investigates a range of mediating pathways (subjective and objective financial situation, short tenure, and employment uncertainty) through which temporary work influences first births in two contrasting contexts: Australia and Germany. Event ...
Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research,
2024,
(Working Paper No. 05/24)
| Inga Laß, Mooi-Reci, Irma, Bujard Martin, Mark Wooden
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This research paper investigated the effect of consumers’ Big Five personality traits on the adoption of residential photovoltaic systems in Germany. To account for different types or groups of households, a multigroup structural equation model with N = 9,281 individuals was analyzed using data from a nationwide, representative household panel. It could be shown that the ways in which personality traits ...
In:
Energy Research & Social Science
77 (2021), 102087
| Stefan Poier
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Measuring multidimensional inequality by means of a univariate index requires weighting the dimensions of inequality. This paper explores the normative and empirical problems involved in measuring inequality by estimating hedonic weights on the basis of German microdata. In contrast to previous works, the perception of inequality, derived from subjective social status, has been used to estimate a weighting ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
146 (2019), 3, 511-531
| Philipp Poppitz
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In the last few decades, the study of ordinal data in which the variable of interest is not exactly observed but only known to be in a specific ordinal category has become important. In Psychometrics such variables are analysed under the heading of item response models (IRM). In Econometrics, subjective well-being (SWB) and self-assessed health (SAH) studies, and in marketing research, Ordered Probit, ...
Amsterdam:
Tinbergen Institute,
2024,
(Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper TI 2024-075/III)
| Bernard M.S. van Praag, Peter J. Hop, William H. Greene
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We revisit the Easterlin paradox about the flatness of the happiness trend over the long run, in spite of sustained economic development. With a bounded scale that explicitly refers to “the best possible life for you” and “the worst possible life for you”, is it even possible to observe a rising trend in self-declared life satisfaction? We consider the possibility of rescaling, i.e. that the interpretation ...
Paris School of Economics,
2024,
(Working Paper No. 2024-61)
| Alberto Prati, Claudia Senik