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Inequalities in health are a prevalent feature of societies. And as societies, we condemn inequalities that are rooted in immutable circumstances such as gender, race, and parental background. Consequently, policy makers are interested in measuring and understanding the causes of health inequalities rooted in circumstances. However, identifying causal estimates of these relationships is very ambitious ...
2021,
| Daniel Graeber
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As the policy debate on entrepreneurship increasingly centers on firm growth in terms of job creation, it is important to understand whether the personality of entrepreneurs drives the first hiring in their firms. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we analyze to what extent personality traits influence the probability of becoming an employer. The results indicate that personality matters. ...
In:
Industrial and Corporate Change
31 (2022), 3, 736-761
| Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, Alexander S. Kritikos
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This dissertation consists of four independent chapters which contribute to the economic analysis of non-cognitive skills and the quality of education. These chapters are preceded by a comprehensive introduction that motivates the individual research questions and indicates common and complementary contributions of the four main chapters. The chapters are followed by a conclusion that discusses potential ...
2018,
| Georg F. Camehl
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This paper evaluates how a light-touch parenting program for parents of children below school entry age affects maternal family well-being. We analyze data from a randomized controlled trial focusing on non-disadvantaged parents. Overall, results show no short-term effects but a relatively large positive effect of the intervention on maternal family well-being in the medium term. With a 20- to 30-percent ...
In:
The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy
20 (2020), 4, 20200084
| Georg F. Camehl, C. Katharina Spieß, Kurt Hahlweg
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The outbreak of COVID-19 has sparked a sudden demand for fast, frequent and accurate data on the societal impact of the pandemic. This demand has highlighted a divide in survey data collection: Most probability-based social surveys, which can deliver the necessary data quality to allow valid inference to the general population, are slow, infrequent and ill-equipped to survey people during a lockdown. ...
In:
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society)
185 (2022), 3, 773-797
| Carina Cornesse, Ulrich Krieger, Marie-Lou Sohnius, Marina Fikel, Sabine Friedel, Tobias Rettig, Alexander Wenz, Sebastian Juhl, Roni Lehrer, Katja Möhring, Elias Naumann, Maximiliane Reifenscheid, Annelies G. Blom
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Objective: This article examines how unemployment affects the separation risk of heterosexual coresiding couples, depending on couples' household income and whether men or women become unemployed. Background: Unemployment may decrease the separation risk as a drop in resources makes separation more costly—or it may increase the separation risk if unemployment creates stress and reduces the quality ...
In:
Journal of Marriage and Family
84 (2022), 1, 310-329
| Alessandro Di Nallo, Oliver Lipps, Daniel Oesch, Marieke Voorpostel
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In this paper, we provide novel evidence on the effect of local unemployment rate on life satisfaction. With this, we contribute to the expanding literature that aims to understand the role of the local labor market's conditions for individual well-being. This information can be used to only analyze the impact of regional economic policies, as well as to understand individuals' behavior and ...
In:
Journal of Regional Science
62 (2022), 2, 412-442
| Antonio Di Paolo, Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell
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Grandparents act as the third largest caregiver after parental care and daycare in Germany, as in many Western societies. Adopting a double-generation perspective, we investigate the causal impact of this care mode on children's health, socio-emotional behavior, and school outcomes, as well as parental well-being. Based on representative German panel data sets, and exploiting arguably exogenous ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2021,
(SOEPpapers 1152)
| Mara Barschkett, C. Katharina Spieß, Elena Ziege
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How does economic growth affect the distribution of wealth? Combining wealth records from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and local GDP growth across 401 German counties, this paper documents a sizable Hometown-Growth-Wealth Nexus. Using a standard OLG model to guide our estimation strategy, we find that, because of hometown growth, a person born in flourishing Munich will have accumulated two to three ...
2024,
(SSRN Working Paper)
| Charlotte Bartels, Johannes König, Carsten Schröder
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While research indicates that social trust might benefit societies? political and economic development, the sources of social trust are subject to debate. This article investigates a less investigated factor in the development of social trust: how far the nuclear family ? that is, partnerships and parenthood ? affects trust towards other people. The data are from three waves of the German Socio-Economic ...
In:
European Societies
24 (2022), 2, 111-128
| Morten Blekesaune