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This paper examines whether adaptation to income varies over the life cycle. Income and well-being research often distinguishes short-run and long-run income associations, but rarely asks whether the degree of adaptation itself depends on age. Using about three decades of data from the Socio-Economic Panel (1993–2023), we estimate individual fixed-effects distributed-lag models of life satisfaction ...
In:
The Journal of the Economics of Ageing
35 (2026),
| Alpaslan Akay
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We examine whether upward mobility within a person’s reference group changes the subjective value of own and reference income. Standard relative-income models interpret higher peer income mainly as status loss. We argue that this view is incomplete. In mobile reference groups, higher peer income may also signal attainable opportunities, consistent with a “tunnel effect”; at the same time, mobility ...
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Economics Letters
268 (2026),
| Alpaslan Akay, Nur Banu Kartal
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Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) has been shown to be a promising network sampling strategy. However, it has also been shown to fail in some applications. Basing an RDS procedure on an existing panel study may, therefore, contain the risk of failure and might even alienate non-compliant seeds. This study therefore investigates the hypothetical willingness of general population panel participants to ...
In:
Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology
(2026),
| Julian B. Axenfeld, Carina Cornesse, Mariel McKone Leonard, Jean-Yves Gerlitz, Julia Witton, Sabine Zinn
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Children with a disability require a greater level of care, which may profoundly affect the lives of their parents as their primary caregivers. However, empirical evidence to quantify the parental care burden of child disability remains scarce. This study aims to uncover the extent to which a child's disability affects the parental care burden by investigating fathers’ and mothers’ time spent ...
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European Societies
28 (2026), 4, 686–715
| Lara Bister, Nicoletta Balbo, Danilo Bolano
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Climate change poses an intertemporal and intergenerational dilemma: the costs of mitigation are often borne today but benefit future generations, potentially creating intergenerational conflicts and challenging climate policies. Conversely, delaying or insufficient climate action shifts substantial economic, social, and environmental burdens into the future, where costs are expected to increase dramatically. ...
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Population and Environment
48 (2026), 4, 24
| Valeria Bordone, Tobias Wiß, Gerrit Bauer, Marta Moroni
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Objective To investigate the impact of various parental health shocks, including parental death, on young adults' life satisfaction and mental health, personality traits, as well as NEET status (i.e., being neither in employment, education, nor training). Background Theoretical considerations and previous cross-sectional studies suggest that parental health problems negatively affect child outcomes ...
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Journal of Marriage and Family
88 (2026), 1, 247–257
| Alessandro Ferrara, Jan P. Heisig, Jonas Radl, Alena Scheinert
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This study explores how volunteering buffers the association between negative life events and life satisfaction using data from two longitudinal surveys: HILDA (30,693 participants, one-year intervals) and SOEP (60,701 participants, two-year intervals). We applied multiple-group random intercept cross-lagged panel models to examine how volunteering moderates the effects between dependent negative life ...
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Personality and Individual Differences
250 (2026),
| Daniel Groß, Jasmin Haffa
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Leadership and risk-taking are often assumed to be interrelated, but this assumption has rarely been investigated empirically in humans or other species. Analyzing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and observer reports from two African chimpanzee sanctuaries, this study finds that risk preferences are positively associated with leadership status in humans and with hierarchical rank in ...
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The Leadership Quarterly
37 (2026), 6, 101992
| Lou M. Haux, Kamil Fulawka, Gert G. Wagner, Ralph Hertwig, Esther Herrmann
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Researchers have long argued that unemployment affects the mental health of both, individuals and their partners, but findings remain inconsistent. Evidence on job insecurity is even scarcer, despite its widespread occurrence. This study tracks shifts in mental health related to unemployment and job insecurity in couples, testing for gender and educational differences. We analyzed data from the German ...
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Advances in Life Course Research
69 (2026), 100753
| Malgorzata Mikucka, Oliver Arránz Becker, Christof Wolf
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Although cultural identity—a bidimensional construct comprised of identification with one’s culture of origin (ethnic identity) and country of residence (national identity)—is an important aspect of identity, little is known about its development during adulthood, the longitudinal relationship between the two dimensions, and the factors that influence their development. As maintaining a sense of sameness ...
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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
131 (2026), 2, 337–354
| Ronja A. Runge, Débora B. Maehler