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Empirically identifying the causal effect of social capital on immigrants’ economic prospects is a challenging task due to the non-random residential sorting of immigrants into locations with greater opportunities for prior or co-ethnic connections. Our study addresses this selection-bias issue by using a natural-experimental dataset of refugees and other immigrants who were exogenously allocated to ...
In:
Comparative Migration Studies
10 (2022), 1, 15
| Klarita Gërxhani, Yuliya Kosyakova
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We use the German Socio-Economic Panel 1984-2008 to identify the sources of this apparent „polarization“ among unskilled men. We start by confirming that earnings inequality among low-skilled men has grown substantially (measured as earnings over a given three-year period in order to minimize effects of short-term fluctuations). Drawing on economic and sociological theories, we then discuss potential ...
Berlin:
2012,
| Johannes Giesecke, Jan Paul Heisig, Heike Solga
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Artificial intelligence (AI) has profoundly transformed numerous facets of both private and professional life. Understanding how people evaluate AI is crucial for predicting its future adoption and addressing potential barriers. However, existing instruments measuring attitudes towards AI often focus on specific technologies or cross-domain evaluations, while domain-specific measurement instruments ...
In:
Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans
3 (2025), March 2025, 100106
| Timo Gnambs, Jan-Philipp Stein, Markus Appel, Florian Griese, Sabine Zinn
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Recent research in economics and sociology demonstrates the existence of significant occupational segregation by sexual orientation and gender identity and differences in a range of labor market outcomes, such as hiring chances, earnings, and leadership positions. In this paper, we examine one possible cause of these differences that is associated with the disadvantaged position of sexual and gender ...
In:
PLOS ONE
19 (2024), 6, e0296419
| Zaza Zindel, Lisa de Vries
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Achieving low unemployment in an environment of weak growth is a major policy challenge; a more egalitarian distribution of hours worked could be the key to solving it. Whether work-sharing actually increases employment, however, has been debated controversially. In this article we present stylized facts on the distribution of hours worked and discuss the role of work-sharing for a sustainable economy. ...
In:
Ecological Economics
121 (2016), 246-253
| Klara Zwickl, Franziska Disslbacher, Sigrid Stagl
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Investing in entrepreneurship may be costly, and therefore risky, and entrepreneurship is also an economic endeavor that is highly dependent on entrepreneurial ability and risk appetite. In this study, data from 669 famers in southwest China were used as the sample, and we used three different methods to measure farmers’ risk aversion level, including DOSPRET (Domain-Specific Risk-Taking), SOEP (Simple ...
In:
Agriculture
14 (2024), 2, 209
| Tong Wang, Jiaxuan Liu, Hongyu Zhu, Yuansheng Jiang
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Hypothetical bias is the discrepancy between stated preferences and actual choices. As such, it is one of the key issues regarding the use of hypothetical survey methods and therefore highly relevant for economists in understanding human behavior and refining policy interventions. Hypothetical survey methods are often used to inform our view on decision making in health and financial settings. However, ...
Essen:
RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung,
2024,
(Ruhr Economic Papers, No. 1091)
| Anna Werbeck
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This paper proposes IV-based estimators for the semiparametric distribution regression model in the presence of an endogenous regressor, which are based on an extension of IV probit estimators and the idea of control functions. We discuss the causal interpretation of the estimators and two methods (monotone rearrangement and isotonic regression) to ensure a monotonically increasing distribution function. ...
In:
Labour Economics
90 (2024), 102565
| Dominik Wied
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Self-control is a personality dimension that is associated with better physical health and a longer lifespan. Here, we examined (1) whether self-control is associated with buccal and saliva DNA-methylation (DNAm) measures of biological aging quantified in children, adolescents, and adults, and (2) whether biological aging measured in buccal DNAm is associated with self-reported health. Following preregistered ...
In:
Clinical Epigenetics
16 (2024), 1, 22
| Y. E. Willems, A. deSteiguer, P. T. Tanksley, L. Vinnik, D. Fraemke, A. Okbay, D. Richter, G. G. Wagner, R. Hertwig, P. Koellinger, E. M. Tucker-Drob, K. P. Harden, Laurel Raffington
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The Big Five personality traits predict many important life outcomes. These traits, although relatively stable, are also open to change across time. However, whether these changes likewise predict a wide range of life outcomes has yet to be rigorously tested. This has implications for the types of processes linking trait levels and changes with future outcomes: distal, cumulative processes versus more ...
In:
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
125 (2023), 6, 1495-1518
| Amanda J. Wright, Joshua J. Jackson