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Objective: This study examined potentially gendered net worth changes over the marital dissolution process, starting up to 3 years prior to separation and continuing up to 15 years postdivorce. Background: Incipient literature showed steep wealth declines for men and women associated with divorce, treating marital dissolution as a single point-in-time event. These findings may be limiting as legal ...
In:
Journal of Marriage and Family
83 (2021), 1, 243-259
| Nicole Kapelle, Janeen Baxter
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Discrimination and rejection experienced by LGBTQI* people affect their mental health and, in the long term, their physical health as well. Survey data from the Socio-Economic Panel and Bielefeld University show that LGBTQI* people in Germany are affected by negative mental health outcomes three to four times more often than the rest of the population. Poor physical health that may be stress-related, ...
In:
DIW Weekly Report
5/6/2021 (2021), 42-50
| David Kasprowski, Mirjam Fischer, Xiao Chen, Lisa de Vries, Martin Kroh, Simon Kühne, David Richter, Zaza Zindel
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People effortlessly and rapidly form a first impression of an individual’s personality based on their facial appearance. Forming an impression based on facial cues can have real world implications, for example, for the outcome of elections, courtroom decisions or work-place interviews. Research using traditional methods has, however, failed to identify the facial features that are related to specific ...
2019,
| Matthias D. Keller
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To which extent do happiness correlates contribute to the stability of life satisfaction? Which method is appropriate to provide a conclusive answer to this question? Based on life satisfaction data of the German SOEP, we show that by Negative Binomial quasi-maximum likelihood estimation statements can be made as to how far correlates of happiness contribute to the stabilisation of life satisfaction. ...
In:
Journal of Happiness Studies
22 (2021), 8, 3611-3629
| Johannes Klement
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We use a unique survey of the EU labor force to investigate the relationship between occupational licensing and the gender wage gap. We find that the gender wage gap is canceled for licensed self-employed workers. However, this closure of the gender wage gap is not mirrored by significant changes in the gender gap in hours worked. Our results are robust using decomposition methods, quantile regressions, ...
London:
Centre fo Economomic Policy Research (CEPR),
2020,
(CEPR Discussion Paper No. 15338)
| Maria Koumenta, Mario Pagliero, Davud Rostam-Afschar
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Research on the consequences of intermarriage is almost exclusively looking at immigrants’ labour market outcomes, with little attention given to non-economic indicators. Drawing from set-point theory and taking on a dynamic approach, the authors examine whether having a different- versus a same-origin partner is subject to a selection on life satisfaction, or associated with a greater short-term improvement ...
In:
Journal of Happiness Studies
22 (2021), 3, 1413-1440
| Gina Potarca, Laura Bernardi
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Previous research on informal spousal caregiving has documented a reduced life satisfaction among caregivers, but it has rarely considered the dynamics over time, the mechanisms that drive these effects, and different types of transitions out of caregiving. This study aims to fill this gap by focusing on spousal caregivers’ life satisfaction before, during, and after episodes of caregiving. We apply ...
In:
Journal of Happiness Studies
22 (2021), 3, 1481-1516
| Regina Gerlich, Tobias Wolbring
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We estimate wage premiums (male, union member and public sector) in West Germany using post penalized expectile regression. The estimation relies on data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 2010-2017. We use a double robust LASSO as penalization technique, which allows us to deal with potential omitted variable bias and to conduct expectile-specific model selection. In addition, we enrich our study ...
Erlangen-Nuremberg:
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Labor and Socio-Economic Research Center,
2020,
(LASER Discussion Papers - Paper No. 120)
| Giovanni Bonaccolto, Marina Töpfer
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This study investigates the effect of smallholders’ personality traits on their land rental market decisions. We develop a conceptual framework and show that these internal factors could affect smallholders’ land rental market participation beyond institutional and socio-demographic factors. Our empirical analysis is based on a survey of 2119 rural households collected in the North China Plain. We ...
In:
China Economic Review
62 (2020), August 2020, 101510
| Chen Qian, Fan Li, Gerrit Antonides, Nico Heerink, Xianlei Ma, Xiande Li
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Introduction: Older adults show higher interindividual performance variability during the learning of new motor sequences than younger adults. It is largely unknown what factors contribute to this variability. This study aimed to, first, characterize age differences in motor sequence learning and, second, examine influencing factors for interindividual performance differences. Method: 30 young adults ...
In:
Psychological Research
85 (2021), 4, 1488–1502
| Katharina Zwingmann, Lena Hübner, Willem B. Verwey, Jonathan S. Barnhoorn, Ben Godde, Claudia Voelcker-Rehage