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A central challenge in understanding public opinion shifts is identifying whose opinions change. Political economy models typically try to uncover this by exploring voters’ economic vulnerability, in particular the relationship between labour market risk and redistribution preferences. Predominantly, however, such work imputes risk from group-level characteristics and is static in nature. This makes ...
In:
Political Science Research and Methods
10 (2022), 3, 507-523
| Raluca L. Pahontu
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Based on a detailed model of the German tax-benefit system, this paper simulates private and fiscal returns to education for college graduates and college dropouts.
In:
Applied Economics Letters
28 (2021), 16, 1432-1435
| Friedhelm Pfeiffer, Holger Stichnoth
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This study is an empirical investigation of the empty nest syndrome, commonly understood as a situation where there are feelings of loss or loneliness for mothers and/or fathers following the departure of the last child from the family home. This investigation makes use of rich, longitudinal, nationally representative German data to assess whether there is evidence for such a syndrome. Furthermore, ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2021,
(SOEPpapers 1119)
| Alan Piper
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Can people remember correctly their past well-being? We study three national surveys of the British, German and French population, where more than 50,000 European citizens were asked questions about their current and past life satisfaction. We uncover systematic biases in recalled subjective well-being: on average, people tend to overstate the improvement in their well-being over time and to understate ...
In:
Psychological Science
33 (2022), 11, 1828-1841
| Alberto Prati, Claudia Senik
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This study provides the first representative analysis of error estimations and willingness to accept errors in a Western country (Germany) with regards to algorithmic decision-making systems (ADM). We examine people’s expectations about the accuracy of algorithms that predict credit default, recidivism of an offender, suitability of a job applicant, and health behavior. Also, we ask whether expectations ...
In:
Scientific Reports
11 (2021), 20171
| Felix G. Rebitschek, Gerd Gigerenzer, Gert G. Wagner
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Verschiedene arbeitsmarktpolitische Maßnahmen zielen darauf ab, die Wirtschaft anzukurbeln und die Arbeitslosigkeit zu bekämpfen. Entgegen den Erwartungen wirken sich einige jedoch nicht positiv auf die Arbeitsmarktergebnisse aus. Eine empirische evidenzbasierte Bewertung vergangener politischen Maßnahmen ist entscheidend für eine effektive Gestaltung zukünftiger Politiken und für die Vermeidung vermeidbarer ...
2019,
| Salwan Saif
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Less-educated persons have worse cardiovascular health. We compare the educational gradients in three disease-specific health measures (biomarkers, self-reported doctors’ diagnoses and cause-specific mortality) in order to compare their relevance in different stages of the disease process. We study 14,102 people aged 50–89 from the US Health Retirement Study (HRS) in the period 2006–17. We use six ...
In:
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
12 (2021), 4, 591-607
| Rasmus Hoffmann, Hannes Kröger
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An frühkindliche Bildung und Betreuung wird die Erwartung herangetragen, zum Abbau von Bildungsungleichheit beizutragen und Inklusion zu fördern. Segregation in Kindertageseinrichtungen (Kitas) wirkt diesen Zielen grundsätzlich entgegen. Bislang gibt es aber für Deutschland nur wenig empirische Erkenntnisse über das Ausmaß und mögliche Ursachen von entsprechenden Entmischungsprozessen. Die vorliegende ...
In:
Diskurs Kindheits- und Jugendforschung
16 (2021), 1, 36-56
| Nina Hogrebe, Anna Pomykaj, Stefan Schulder
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This article highlights the potentials for migration research using the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), a longitudinal panel dataset of private households in Germany running since 1984. We provide a concise overview of its basic features, describe the survey contents and research potentials, and demonstrate opportunities to link external data sources to the SOEP thereby presenting its diverse ...
In:
Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
241 (2021), 4, 527-549
| Jannes Jacobsen, Magdalena Krieger, Felicitas Schikora, Jürgen Schupp
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The homeownership rate in Germany is one of the lowest among advanced economies. To better understand this fact, we evaluate the role of specific housing policies that tend to discourage homeownership. In comparison to other countries with higher homeownership such as the United States, Germany has an extensive social housing sector with broad eligibility criteria, high transfer taxes when buying real ...
In:
Journal of the European Economic Association
19 (2021), 1, 128-164
| Leo Kaas, Georgi Kocharkov, Edgar Preugschat, Nawid Siassi