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In times of crises, democracies face the challenge of balancing effective interventions with civil liberties. This study examines German states’ responses during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on the trade-off between civil liberties and public health. Using state-level variation in mobility restrictions, we employ a difference-in-differences design to show that stay-at-home orders ...
In:
European Journal of Political Economy
85 (2024), December 2024, 102593
| Daniel Graeber, Lorenz Meister, Panu Poutvaara
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Critical theories of education and the dynamics of skill formation model predict that the education system reproduces socioeconomic inequalities in educational attainment. Previous empirical studies comparing changes in socioeconomic inequalities in academic performance over the summer to changes in these inequalities during the school year have argued, however, that schooling reduces inequalities ...
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Sociological Science
10 (2023), 880-902
| Michael Grätz
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The diverging destinies hypothesis predicts that educational inequality increases in contemporary societies because parents with higher levels of education postpone the birth of their children. This hypothesis is supported by empirical evidence demonstrating that advanced parental ages improve children?s educational outcomes. However, the consequences of socioeconomic differences in parental ages for ...
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European Societies
26 (2024), 5, 1444-1471
| Michael Grätz, Øyvind N. Wiborg
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Germany played a key role as receiving country during the so-called refugee and displacement crisis with about 5 million asylum seekers arriving in the EU between 2014 and 2020. It is well known that asylum seekers and refugees (ASRs) have a high burden of disease and are particularly prone to mental disorders such as trauma, stress-related and affective disorders. Not much is known about the determinants ...
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BMC Public Health
24 (2024), 1, 1965
| Thomas Grochtdreis, Hans-Helmut König, Judith Dams
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It is known that the health-care service utilization in primary care of persons with a direct migration background is lower compared to non-migrants. However, potential migration-related determinants of health-care service utilization are not known. Therefore, this study aimed to analyze the associations between health-care service utilization and migration-related characteristics of persons with a ...
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The European Journal of Health Economics
26 (2025), 2, 313–323
| Thomas Grochtdreis, Hans-Helmut König, Judith Dams
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ABSTRACT Understanding risk tolerance is crucial for predicting and changing behavior across various domains, including health and safety, finance, and ethics. This remains true during a crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, and leads to a key question: Do current risk measures reliably predict risk-taking in the drastically different context of a pandemic? The Domain Specific Risk-Taking (DOSPERT) ...
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Journal of Behavioral Decision Making
37 (2024), 4, e2413
| Benno Guenther, Matteo M. Galizzi, Jet G. Sanders
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In the social and behavioral sciences, surveys are frequently used to collect data. During the COVID-19 pandemic, surveys provided political actors and public health professionals with timely insights on the attitudes and behaviors of the general population. These insights were key in guiding actions to fight the pandemic. However, the data quality of these surveys remains unclear because systematic ...
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Scientific Data
11 (2024), 1, 619
| Tobias Gummer, Thomas Skora, Karolina von Glasenapp, Elias Naumann
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Asylum recognition rates in advanced democracies differ not only across states but also vary within them, translating into fluctuating individual chances to obtain protection. Existing studies on the determinants of these regional inequities typically rely on aggregate data. Utilizing a German refugee survey and leveraging a quasi-natural experiment arising from state-based allocation rules tied to ...
In:
Migration Studies
(online first) (2024),
| Lidwina Gundacker, Yuliya Kosyakova, Gerald Schneider
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Background There is a significant gap in sleep duration across countries with 56 percent of the Japanese population sleeps less than seven hours per day against around 30 percent in the United Kingdom (UK), Germany, and Australia. Similarly, labour market characteristics differ across these countries, with average working hours being higher in Australia and Japan compared to the UK and Germany, but ...
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medRxiv
medRxiv
| Ya Guo, Senhu Wang, Rong Fu, Jacques Wels
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Providing replication code is an inexpensive way to facilitate reproducibility. However, little is known about the extent of replication code provision. Therefore, we examine the availability of replication code for over 2,500 peer-reviewed articles based on the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), one of the most widely used datasets in economics and other social sciences. We find that only 6% of SOEP-based ...
DIW Berlin,
2024,
| Lukas Fink, Jan Marcus