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Surveys serve as an important source of information on key anthropometric characteristics such as body height or weight in the population. Such data are often obtained by directly asking respondents to report those values. Numerous studies have examined measurement errors in this context by comparing reported to measured values. However, little is known on the role of interviewers on the prevalence ...
In:
Economics & Human Biology
45 (2022), 101118
| Lukas Olbrich, Yuliya Kosyakova, Joseph W. Sakshaug
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Objectives: The population of adults with congenital heart defects (ACHD) is continuously growing. Data on morbidity and mortality of ACHD are limited. This longitudinal observational study examined a group of ACHD with surgically corrected or palliated congenital heart defects (CHD) during a 15-year period. Methods: ACHD that had participated in the initial study were invited for a follow-up examination. ...
In:
Clinical Research in Cardiology
111 (2022), 8, 900-911
| Matthias J. Müller, Kambiz Norozi, Jonas Caroline, Nicole Sedlak, Jonas Bock, Thomas Paul, Siegfried Geyer, Claudia Dellas
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Background: While numerous studies suggest that single motherhood is associated with socioeconomic disadvantages and poor health, few studies have analyzed how these conditions have evolved over time. Addressing this gap, we examined the temporal development of self-rated health (SRH) among single compared to partnered mothers, and the role of socioeconomic factors that may have influenced this trend. ...
In:
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
19 (2022), 5, 2727
| Stefanie Sperlich, Frauke-Marie Adler, Johannes Beller, Batoul Safieddine, Juliane Tetzlaff, Fabian Tetzlaff, Siegfried Geyer
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This qualitative exploratory study sought to understand highly educated Iraqi and Syrian refugees’ perceptions of their learning experiences during economic integration in Luxembourg. This research sought to elucidate how these new migrants learned to integrate in a country with a long tradition of migration but little exposure to Arabic-speaking groups. Further, it sought to explore participants’ ...
2022,
| Anne M. Vesdrevanis
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This study combines data from the HFCS (Household Finance and Consumption Survey) and the social security registry to estimate the present value of public pension entitlements for Austria in the year 2017. The household averages of the present value of pension entitlements and of private net wealth turn out to be similar (both amounting to around €250,000) which is in line with the results for other ...
Vienna:
Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB),
2022,
(Working Paper 238)
| Markus Knell, Reinhard Koman
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Does the culture in which a woman grows up influence her labor market decisions once she has had a child? And to what extent can exposure to a different cultural group in adulthood shape maternal labor supply? To address these questions, we exploit the setting of the German reunification. A state socialist country, East Germany strongly encouraged mothers to participate in the labor market full-time, ...
Munich:
CESifo,
2021,
(CESifo Working Paper No. 9094)
| Barbara Boelmann, Anna Raute, Uta Schönberg
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In light of persistent gender inequality on the labour market, I investigate how social norms affect women’s labour market integration along two dimensions: through reduced labour supply upon the arrival of children and through constraints on geographic mobility. I first look at the persistence and change of gender norms around the time of childbirth. To that end, I explore the setting of the German ...
2022,
| Barbara Boelmann
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This study contributes to the subjective well-being and retirement literature by quantifying life satisfaction before (4) and after retirement (9+) periods asking: Are retirees more satisfied? Fixed-effects and causal instrumental variables (IV) estimates with individual longitudinal data of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP, 33 waves) analyze anticipation and adaptation retirement effects of statutory ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2022,
(SOEPpapers 1163)
| Joachim Merz
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Objectives: Physical intimacy is important for communicating affection in romantic relationships. Theoretical and empirical work highlights linkages between physical intimacy, affect, and physiological stress among young and middle-aged adults, but not older adults. We examine physical intimacy and its associations with positive and negative affect and cortisol levels in the daily lives of older couples. ...
In:
The Journals of Gerontology: Series B
77 (2022), 8, 1416-1430
| Karolina Kolodziejczak, Johanna Drewelies, Theresa Pauly, Nilam Ram, Christiane Hoppmann, Denis Gerstorf
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Does growing up with a sister rather than a brother affect personality? In this article, we provide a comprehensive analysis of the effects of siblings’ gender on adults’ personality, using data from 85,887 people from 12 large representative surveys covering nine countries (United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Australia, Mexico, China, and Indonesia). We investigated ...
In:
Psychological Science
33 (2022), 9, 1574-1587
| Thomas Dudek, Anne A. Brenøe, Jan Feld, Julia M. Rohrer