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We analyse a measure of loneliness from a representative sample of German individuals interviewed in both 2017 and at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Both men and women felt lonelier during the COVID-19 pandemic than they did in 2017. The pandemic more than doubled the gender loneliness gap: women were lonelier than men in 2017, and the 2017-2020 rise in loneliness was far larger for ...
In:
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
101 (2022), 101952
| Anthony Lepinteur, Andrew E. Clark, Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Alan Piper, Carsten Schröder, Conchita D'Ambrosio
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This paper exploits the idiosyncratic line of contact separating Allied and Soviet troops within East Germany at the end of WWII to study political resistance in a non-democracy. When Nazi Germany surrendered, 40% of what would become the authoritarian German Democratic Republic was initially under Allied control but was ceded to Soviet control less than two months later. Brief Allied exposure increased ...
In:
Applied Economics
15 (2023), 1, 68-106
| Luis R. Martínez, Jonas Jessen, Guo Xu
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We analyze the relation between individuals’ risk aversion and their willingness to expose themselves to infection when faced with an asymptomatic infectious disease. We show that in a high prevalence environment, increasing individuals’ risk aversion increases their propensity to engage in transmissive behavior. The reason for this result is that as risk aversion increases, exposure which leads to ...
In:
Economic Theory
76 (2023), 1, 1-44
| Konstantin Matthies, Flavio Toxvaerd
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This paper assesses whether monetary policy announcements have an impact on households’ (subjective) well-being by analysing life satisfaction on the days before and after monetary surprises in Germany. To do so, we use individual-level information on life satisfaction from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) survey and identify the day on which each answer is submitted to the survey. We also exploit ...
Bordeaux:
Bordeaux School of Economics (BSE),
2022,
(BxWP2022-09)
| Mehdi El Herradi, Aurélien Leroy
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Objective: Personality has long been assumed to be a cause of religiosity, not a consequence. Yet, recent research suggests that religiosity may well cause personality change. Consequently, longitudinal research is required that examines the bi-directionality between personality and religiosity. The required research must also attend to cultural religiosity—a critical moderator in previous cross-sectional ...
In:
Journal of Personality
91 (2023), 3, 736-752
| Theresa M. Entringer, Jochen E. Gebauer, Hannes Kröger
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Diese Dissertation untersucht den Zusammenhang zwischen der Pflege älterer Personen durch Angehörige und Freunde und dem Rentensystem. Die Arbeit besteht aus vier Kapiteln, in denen jeweils Mikroökonometrische Methoden auf Umfragedatensätze angewandt werden. Die ersten drei Kapitel nutzen Quasi-experimentelle Verfahren, um wichtige Parameter im Zusammenhang zwischen Altenpflege durch Angehörige und ...
2022,
| Björn Fischer
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Economic inequalities and poverty are aspects of well-being that have been largely studied in the past literature also with the development of many appropriate indicators able to measure them. One aspect of well-being that has not been studied enough is economic insecurity. This lack might be due to its abstract nature and the difficulty to define such phenomena. In this work, we suggest an indicator ...
Ottawa:
International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW),
2022,
(37th IARIW General Conference Conference Paper)
| Alessandro Gallo, Silvia Pacei, Maria R. Ferrante
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Thanks to the male breadwinner model with wages sufficient to support a family, working-class families used to be financially secure. The transformation towards the adult worker model (AWM) saw an accumulation of adverse employment characteristics—especially among manual and non-manual routine occupations—and a rise in poverty risks. However, there is a lack of research that combines these strands. ...
In:
European Sociological Review
39 (2023), 2, 247-261
| Jean-Yves Gerlitz
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How does previous exposure to massive immigrant inflows affect concerns about current immigration and the integration of refugees? To answer this question, we investigate attitudes toward newcomers among natives and previous immigrants. In areas that in the 1990s received higher inflows of immigrants of German origin—the so-called ethnic Germans—native Germans are more likely to believe that refugees ...
In:
Migration Studies
10 (2022), 4, 789-814
| Rania Gihleb, Osea Giuntella, Luca Stella
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The consumer debt of households in Germany totals in the triple-digit billions and is characterized by a wide range of interest rates. Despite the high volume of debt, many people do not know the terms of their consumer credit contracts. This report analyzes new survey data on general knowledge about typical forms of consumer credit, such as the overdraft facility and consumer loans. Women tend to ...
In:
DIW Weekly Report
12 (2022), 37, 218-226
| Antonia Gipp, Jana Hamdan, Lukas Menkhoff