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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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European Sociological Review
38 (2022), 2, 189-201
| Samir Khalil, Elias Naumann
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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 ...
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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 ...
In:
BMJ Open
10 (2020), 6, e034294
| Anja Knöchelmann, Nico Seifert, Sebastian Günther, Irene Moor, Matthias Richter