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Locus of Control and Prosocial Behavior

We investigate how locus of control beliefs – the extent to which individuals attribute control over events in their life to themselves as opposed to outside factors – affect prosocial behavior and the private provision of public goods. We begin by developing a conceptual framework showing how locus of control beliefs serve as a weight placed on the returns from one’s own contributions (impure altruism) ...

School Curricula, Educational Trajectories, and Labor Market Outcomes

Benjamin W. Arold prepared this study while he was working at the Center for Economics of Education at the ifo Institute. The study was completed in March 2022 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the LMU Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of how school curricula affect students in the classroom and beyond. Chapter 2 demonstrates ...

Attitudes toward mandatory COVID-19 vaccination in Germany: A representative analysis of data from the socio-economic panel for the year 2021

Hintergrund: Eine hinreichend hohe Immunität gegen COVID-19 wird offenbar nur durch freiwillige Impfungen in Deutschland nicht erreicht werden. Eine allgemeine Impfpflicht wird daher weiterhin erwogen. Wir präsentieren Ergebnisse zu ihrer Akzeptanz in der Bevölkerung Deutschlands und berichten, wie Zustimmung und Ablehnung begründet wird und sich nach Bevölkerungsgruppen unterscheidet. Methode: Wir ...

Is the Smartphone Friend and Foe? Benefits and Costs of Self-reported Smartphone Use for Important Life Domains in a Representative German Sample

Smartphones are ubiquitous today, yet opinions differ as to whether the benefits or downsides of smartphone use predominate. Using the age-representative ‘Innovation Sample’ of the German Socio-Economic Panel study (N = 5,131, age M = 52.26, 17–96 years), this study examined associations between self-reported smartphone use and three life domains: individual well-being (psychological well-being, sleep); ...

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Trust we lost: The impact of the Treuhand experience on political alienation in East Germany

Do politically administered mass layoffs undermine trust and political interest? During the German reunification, formerly state-owned socialist firms in East Germany were privatized by the Treuhand, which came at the cost of massive job losses and public protest. I demonstrate that these activities had a detrimental effect on attitudes and political behavior of the affected individuals. Using survey ...

Young Adults’ Housing Tenure Choices after Leaving the Parental Home: An Empirical Analysis Based on the German SOEP

In this master’s thesis, I examined the housing tenure choices of young adults after leaving the parental home. By distinguishing between four tenure types in owning, renting, subletting, and living in dormitories, I could add to the existing literature on housing and provide new insights into the housing careers of home leavers. I used data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and assessed the housing ...

Social Desirability and Central Tendency Bias in the Survey and Variation of Life Satisfaction

Even though life satisfaction is an empirically extensively researched well-being concept, there are still open questions regarding the variation of life satisfaction and the influence of variables that are not collected in data sets such as the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). In this article, I explore the question to what extent the variation of life satisfaction is influenced by biases resulting ...

Biological perspective of socioeconomic inequality

An inductive typology of egocentric networks with data from the Socio-Economic Panel

In this article we apply Random Forests to data from the German Socio-Economic-Panel (SOEP), creating an inductive typology of egocentric networks. Using an earlier application of the machine learning algorithm as a guideline, we are putting the wider applicability of the method to the test by using data not exclusively constructed for network analysis and focusing on core networks of respondents. ...