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Since decades, only one fourth of German households invest in shares. One exception was during the three IPOs from 1996 to 2000 of the Deutsche Telekom, which gave Germans a taste to enter the stock market. However, the fall in the share price shortly after the second IPO, followed by corruption scandals of the company, put an end to their enthusiasm. The present study based on SOEP data shows that ...
In:
DIW Weekly Report
11 (2021), 25, 177-183
| Chi Hyun Kim, Alexander Kriwoluzky
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There are numerous studies investigating the effect of health insurance on healthcare utilisation, but there is little empirical evidence examining the effect of private health insurance on objective health outcomes in a universal public health system. Tracking each individual’s health status using panel data, we explore whether there is a difference in the probability of contracting a critical illness ...
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The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice
48 (2023), 177-193
| Daehwan Kim, Dong-hwa Lee
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I study yearly changes in personal well-being combining data on current, retrospective and prospective life satisfaction from the German Socio-Economic Panel. Predicted and remembered changes in life satisfaction are both positive on average and match well, whereas the average year to year-change inferred from reports of current life satisfaction is negative. Retrospective assessments of past well-being ...
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Journal of Happiness Studies
23 (2022), 1669-1681
| Marcus Klemm
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Objective: We aim to investigate the effect of income and housing satisfaction on self-rated health in different life stages. Design: A population-based panel study (German Socio-Economic Panel). Participants: The final sample consisted of 384 280 observations from 50 004 persons covering the period between 1994 and 2016. Outcome measures: Average marginal effects were calculated based on fixed effects ...
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BMJ Open
10 (2020), 6, e034294
| Anja Knöchelmann, Nico Seifert, Sebastian Günther, Irene Moor, Matthias Richter
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The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) serves a global research community by providing representative annual longitudinal data of private households in Germany. The sample provides a detailed life course perspective based on a rich collection of information about living conditions, socio-economic status, family relationships, personality, values, preferences, and health. We collected genetic data from ...
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PLOS ONE
18 (2023), 11, e0294896
| Philipp D. Koellinger, Aysu Okbay, Hyeokmoon Kweon, Annemarie Schweinert, Richard Karlsson Linnér, Jan Goebel, David Richter, Lisa Reiber, Bettina Maria Zweck, Daniel W. Belsky, Pietro Biroli, Rui Mata, Elliot M. Tucker-Drob, K. Paige Harden, Gert G. Wagner, Ralph Hertwig
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Empirical research in the field of urban economics benefits more from accurate spatial data than any other field of economics. Exploiting the spatial relationship between economic entities allows for generating comprehensive data sets which in turn allow for more comprehensive modelling and hypotheses testing. This disseration presents three essays on different aspects of urban economics which all ...
2017,
| Jens Kolbe
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From standard portfolio-choice theory it is well-understood that background risk, overwhelmingly due to wage risk, is one of the central determinants of individuals’ portfolio composition: higher background risk reduces risky investments. However, if background risk is negatively correlated with financial market risk, higher background risk implies more risky investment. We quantify the influence of ...
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International Review of Financial Analysis
100 (2025), 103985,
| Johannes König, Maximilian Longmuir
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Do the processes underlying destination-language acquisition differ between recently arrived refugees and other new immigrants? Based on a well-established model of language learning according to which language fluency is a function of efficiency, incentives, and exposure, this study addresses general processes of language learning as well as conditions specific to refugees. Longitudinal data on refugees ...
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Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
48 (2022), 5, 989-1012
| Yuliya Kosyakova, Cornelia Kristen, Christoph Spörlein
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Does the politico–economic system affect preferences for immigration? In this study, I show that individuals exposed to life under state socialism have formed and persistently hold different attitudes toward immigration. By exploiting the division and reunification of Germany, I estimate the influence of state socialism on attitudes toward immigration. Drawing on rich individual panel data, I find ...
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Journal of Comparative Economics
49 (2021), 3, 733-750
| Martin Lange
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Critical theories of education but also the dynamics of skill formation model predict that the education system reproduces educational inequalities. Contrary to this hypothesis, empirical studies comparing the change in inequalities in academic performance over the summer to the change in these inequalities during the school year, have argued that schooling reduces inequalities in educational performance. ...
2021,
(SocArXiv Preprints)
| Michael Grätz