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Families’ economic wealth is a resource that can provide children with crucial advantages early in their lives. Prior research identified substantial variation of wealth levels between different family types with children from single-parent families being most disadvantaged. The causes of this disadvantage, how much the disadvantage varies between children and how the non-resident parents’ wealth may ...
In:
Journal of European Social Policy
31 (2021), 5, 565-579
| Philipp M Lersch, Markus M Grabka, Kilian Rüß, Carsten Schröder
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Motivated by research on gender identity norms and the distribution of the woman's share in a couple's total labor income, we consider functional additive regression models for probability density functions as responses with scalar covariates. To preserve nonnegativity and integration to one under summation and scalar multiplication, we formulate the model for densities in a Bayes Hilbert ...
2021,
(arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.11771)
| Eva-Maria Maier, Almond Stöcker, Bernd Fitzenberger, Sonja Greven
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Despite their often-reported tendency to ?aim high?, children of immigrants frequently demonstrate lower school achievement than children of non-immigrants. We address this attitude-achievement paradox by proposing a conditional view that contends that exposure to the destination country's language is essential for transforming favourable educational orientations into achievement. Based on German ...
In:
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
46 (2020), 7, 1348-1370
| Ai Miyamoto, Julian Seuring, Cornelia Kristen
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Objective: This study examines how the interplay of both partners' employment biographies is associated with the within-couple gender wealth gap in later life in Britain and Western Germany, including married couples born between the 1920s and 1960s. Background: Although it is well-known that women own less personal wealth than their male partners on average, variation in the gender wealth gap ...
In:
Journal of Marriage and Family
84 (2022), 2, 552-569
| Theresa Nutz, Davide Gritti
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Labour market, health, and wellbeing research provide evidence of increasing educational inequality as individuals age, representing a pattern consistent with the mechanism of cumulative (dis)advantage. However, individual life courses are embedded in cohort contexts that might alter life course differentiation processes. Thus, this study analyses cohort variations in education-specific life course ...
In:
Acta Sociologica
65 (2022), 3, 293-312
| Alexander Patzina
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The struggle that women face in reconciling their work and family roles is one of the main explanations proposed for the rapid decline in fertility rates in some developed countries. This study examines the role of the outsourcing of housework in reducing such role incompatibility and in increasing fertility among women in Germany—a country with below-replacement fertility rates, which enacted a series ...
In:
Population Research and Policy Review
35 (2016), 3, 401-417
| Liat Raz-Yurovich
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We examine the relationship between parenting activities and centre-based care using time diary and survey data for mothers in Germany. While mothers using centre-based care spend significantly less time in the presence of their child, we find that differences in the time spent on specific activities such as reading, talking, and playing with the child are relatively small or zero. The pattern of results ...
In:
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
84 (2022), 6, 1356-1379
| Jonas Jessen, Christa Katharina Spieß, Sevrin Waights
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This study applies a machine learning (ML) approach to around 400,000 observations from the German Socio-Economic Panel to assess the relation between life satisfaction and age. We show that with our ML-based approach it is possible to isolate the effect of age on life satisfaction across the lifecycle without explicitly parameterizing the complex relationship between age and other covariates—this ...
In:
Scientific Reports
12 (2022), 1, 5263
| Micha Kaiser, Steffen Otterbach, Alfonso Sousa-Poza
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We study the impact of a recent curriculum reform introducing mandatory economic education in higher-track secondary schools in Southwest Germany. The curriculum reform provides the opportunity to leverage the exogenous variation in exposure to economic education relative to the previous cohort not affected by the reform. One year after exposure to the mandate, we observe positive treatment effects ...
Kiel, Hamburg:
Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft (ZBW),
2021,
(EconStore Working Paper)
| Tim Kaiser, Luis Oberrauch
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This article examines how contact with perceived foreigners affects natives’ attitudes towards immigration. Using six waves of individual level panel data from Germany (2007–2017), we find that natives’ reported mutual visits with foreigners reduce worries about immigration. However, the results do not imply an increase in this effect in the course of repeated contact. Our analyses also consider the ...
In:
European Sociological Review
38 (2022), 2, 189-201
| Samir Khalil, Elias Naumann