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We study whether compulsory religious education in schools affects students' religiosity as adults. We exploit the staggered termination of compulsory religious education across German states in models with state and cohort fixed effects. Using three different datasets, we find that abolishing compulsory religious education significantly reduced religiosity of affected students in adulthood. It ...
Bonn:
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA),
2022,
(IZA DP No. 14989)
| Benjamin W. Arold, Ludger Woessmann, Larissa Zierow
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We investigate the stability of self-control at the population level. Analyzing repeated Brief Self-Control Scale scores, we demonstrate that self-control exhibits a high degree of mean-level, rank-order, and individual-level stability over the medium term. Changes in self-control are not associated with major life events, nor are they economically important. The stability of self-control is particularly ...
In:
Journal of Economic Psychology
95 (2023), 102599
| Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Nancy Kong, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
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This paper studies the effects of threat on convergence to local culture and economic assimilation of refugees, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in their allocation across German regions between 2013 and 2016. We combine novel survey data on cultural preferences and economic outcomes of refugees with corresponding information on locals, and construct a threat index that integrates contemporaneous ...
Cambridge:
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER),
2022,
(NBER Working Paper 30381)
| Philipp Jaschke, Sulin Sardoschau, Marco Tabellini
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Second homes and weekend commuting are frequently used strategies for covering large distances between the place of work and residence. The literature posits a positive association between work-related spatial mobility, social mobility, and career achievement. However, so far, surprisingly little attention has been paid explicitly to the relationship between weekend commuting (i.e. work-related residential ...
In:
Population, Space and Place
27 (2021), 8, e2464
| Nico Stawarz, Heiko Rüger, Thomas Skora
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This dissertation consists of three studies that evaluate how women form partnerships, leave partnerships, and the economic outcomes of those partnerships. These demographic transitions and outcomes are evaluated in three country contexts with differing political, welfare regimes, social history. I use longitudinal data from Russia to analyze marital status differences and trends in in poverty risk. ...
2021,
| Polina Zvavitch
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A commonly expressed concern about immigration is that it undermines social cohesion in the receiving country. In this paper, we study the impact of a large and sudden inflow of asylum seekers on several indicators of social cohesion. In 2015/16, over one million asylum seekers from Syria, Afghanistan, and elsewhere arrived in Germany. Anecdotal evidence suggests that this inflow changed the public ...
In:
World Development
167 (2023), 106228
| Emanuele Albarosa, Benjamin Elsner
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Survey evidence shows that the magnitude of the tax liability plays a role in value judgements about which groups deserve tax breaks. Such considerations can be explained with a role for the tax burden itself, but do not follow from standard welfarist optimal taxation. We show that the German tax-transfer system is not in line with a standard welfarist inequality averse social planner. Instead, it ...
In:
FinanzArchiv
78 (2022), 3, 312-341
| Robin Jessen, Maria Metzing, Davud Rostam-Afschar
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Two competing theories of social support and role specialization have been invoked to explain how marital status affects labour market outcomes. Whereas evidence of beneficial labour market outcomes among married men and employed married women favours a social support perspective, evidence of married women’s reduced labour market participation corresponds to a role specialization perspective. We make ...
In:
European Sociological Review
38 (2022), 1, 73-87
| Maik Hamjediers, Paul Schmelzer
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Wechsel des Beschäftigungssektors im Laufe des Berufslebens, d. h. der Wechsel vom privaten in den öffentlichen Sektor oder umgekehrt, sind häufig, wurden bisher jedoch kaum untersucht. Mit Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels für Deutschland gebe ich Einblicke in diese Sektorwechsel. Außerdem analysiere ich, ob sozio-demografische Merkmale oder Einstellungen die Wahrscheinlichkeit, den Sektoren zu ...
Erlangen und Nürnberg:
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg,
2021,
(Discussion Paper No. 122)
| Stephanie Prümer
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Purpose: Based on theoretical predictions from human capital theory, the aim of this exploratory study is to analyze the relationship between experimentally elicited, incentivized economic preference parameters, Big Five and Grit personality traits, cognitive ability, and the Alameda Seven lifestyles: smoking, drinking excessively, being overweight or obese, experiencing stress, following a healthy ...
In:
Risk Management and Healthcare Policy
15 (2022), 93-105
| Donata Bessey