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Cognitive abilities are associated with key preferences and socio-economic outcomes. One of the most frequently studied cognitive abilities is cognitive reflection, the ability to avoid intuitive but potentially wrong decisions by switching to a more analytical mindset. Using rich panel data in this pre-registered study, we show that stronger cognitive reflection is significantly associated with more ...
In:
Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics
3 (2025), 2, 303–343
| Frank M. Fossen, Levent Neyse, Carsten Schröder
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This dissertation intends to gain insights into the careers of junior academics. In more detail, the work addresses the following general research questions: (i) What career goals do doctoral candidates from the STEM disciplines pursue and what factors are associated with the academic career goal of becoming a professor and with non-academic career goals of becoming a manager or an entrepreneur? (ii) ...
2021,
| Irina Frei
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This study examines how being a tied or lead mover relates to the ethnic identity of migrant spouses. Tied and lead movers differ in their migration motivations, face different constraints, and opportunities (e.g., social network through work). This is likely to be reflected in different investment strategies and adjustment patterns in the host country. To study the adjustment of tied and lead movers, ...
In:
Review of Economics of the Household
(2024),
| Teresa Freitas-Monteiro
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Asylum seekers migrating from developing countries to Europe frequently experience victimization events during their journey. The consequences for their economic integration into destination countries are not yet well explored. In this paper, we analyze how victimization during asylum seekers’ journey affects their economic integration in Germany using survey data collected in the aftermath of the ...
2021,
| Teresa Freitas-Monteiro, Lars Ludolph
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Abstract Religiosity influences economic behavior in various domains, but what determines religiosity? Using data from the representative Socio-Economic Panel Study for Germany (SOEP), this paper shows that religious activity increases after a family member's death. The life event's effect is larger after a partner's death when compared to a parent's death. Our results indicate ...
In:
Kyklos
77 (2024), 2, 458-468
| Tim Friehe, Christian Pfeifer
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This paper explores the empirical relationship between local economic conditions, social capital, and individual characteristics on the one hand and satisfaction with democracy on the other hand, using detailed information from the German Socio-Economic Panel. In contrast to previous literature, we focus on economic conditions at the state level instead of the national one. We find that local economic ...
In:
Economics of Governance
25 (2024), 3, 335-377
| Tim Friehe, Christian Pfeifer
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Informal childcare care by grandparents, other relatives or friends is an important source of support in many Western countries, including Germany. Yet the role of this type of care is often overlooked in accounts of social policies supporting families with children, which tend to focus on formal childcare. This article examines whether the large formal childcare expansion occurring in Germany in the ...
In:
Social Policy & Administration
(online first) (2024),
| Ludovica Gambaro, Clara Schäper, C. Katharina Spiess
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The German Social Cohesion Panel (SCP) is a probability-based self-administered longitudinal study in a mixed-mode design (PAPI and CAWI) that is jointly carried out by the Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC) and the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). The aim of the study is to capture the diversity of social cohesion in Germany from multiple perspectives, particularly regarding the extent to ...
2024,
(OSF Preprints)
| Jean-Yves Gerlitz, Julian B. Axenfeld, Carina Cornesse, Olaf Groh-Samberg, Martin Kroh, Holger Lengfeld, Stefan Liebig, Lara Minkus, Jost Reinecke, David Richter, Nils Teichler, Richard Traunmüller, Sabine Zinn
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Lifespan psychological and life course sociological research have long shown that spousal bereavement constitutes one of the most stressful life events in older adulthood that is often associated with marked declines in well-being. It is an open question though whether and how the well-being implications of spousal loss have changed over the past decades. To do so, we used multi-year within-person ...
In:
European Journal of Personality
(Online First) (2025),
| Urmimala Ghose, Michael D. Krämer, David Richter, Gert G. Wagner, Frank J. Infurna, Nilam Ram, Denis Gerstorf
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This paper aims at providing new evidence about the link between personal and functional distribution and top-shares composition. We apply a novel class scheme based on two key features of contemporary capitalism i.e., individuals/households receiving multiple types of incomes, and the role of managers. The empirical application in Germany, Spain, and Italy over the period 2000–2017 reveals two main ...
In:
The Journal of Economic Inequality
(online first) (2024),
| Luca Giangregorio, Davide Villani