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Socioeconomic status (SES) and health during childhood have been consistently observed to be associated with health in old age in many studies. However, the exact mechanisms behind these two associations have not yet been fully understood. The key challenge is to understand how childhood SES and health are associated. Furthermore, data on childhood factors and life course mediators are sometimes unavailable, ...
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Advances in Life Course Research
31 (2017), March 2017, 1-10
| Eduwin Pakpahan, Rasmus Hoffmann, Hannes Kröger
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This study focuses on two main questions. First, do non-cohabiting relationships have an effect on mental and physical health? And second, do non-cohabiting relationships affect health in a similar way as cohabitation and marriage? To differentiate between the selection effects of healthier individuals into a couple relationship and the causal effects of couple relationships on health, we test hypotheses ...
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European Sociological Review
36 (2020), 2, 303-316
| Ingmar Rapp, Johannes Stauder
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Research on the consequences of starting in overeducation often focuses on either secondary or tertiary graduates. We focus on both within one country, Germany. While matching and search models imply the improvement of initial overeducation, human capital theory and stigma associated with overeducation predict entrapment. The strongly skill- and occupation-based labour market for the vocationally trained ...
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European Sociological Review
36 (2020), 3, 413–428
| Paul Schmelzer, Thorsten Schneider
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In this article, we analyze whether the financial strain of poverty systematically alters the allocation of attention. We address two types of attention: attention to unexpectedly occurring events and attention to primary tasks that require focus. We show that the poor are significantly more likely than the rich to notice unexpected events. In addition, we do not find robust evidence that poverty increases ...
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Economics & Human Biology
41 (2021), 100987
| Stefanie Y. Schmitt, Markus G. Schlatterer
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Current literature suggests that neuroticism is positively associated with maladaptive life choices, likelihood of disease, and mortality. However, recent research has identified circumstances under which neuroticism is associated with positive outcomes. The current project examined whether “healthy neuroticism”, defined as the interaction of neuroticism and conscientiousness, was associated with the ...
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Collabra: Psychology
6 (2020), 1, Art. 32
| Eileen K. Graham, Sara J. Weston, Nicholas A. Turiano, Damaris Aschwanden, Tom Booth, et al.
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Research on educational mobility usually studies socioeconomic differences at the mean of children’s academic performance but fails to consider the variation in the shape of socioeconomic differences across the outcome distribution. Theories of social mobility as well as theories about the resource allocation within families predict such variation. We use quantile regression models to estimate variation ...
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European Sociological Review
36 (2020), 3, 381-394
| Michael Grätz, Øyvind N. Wiborg
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Health-related decisions make use of numeracy skills, for example counting medication dosages, extracting health-related information from food packaging or understanding statistical data. Even though the concept of health literacy is often used to explain health disparities (Freedman et al., in American Journal of Preventive Medicine 36:446–451, 2009), discourses that differentiate between health literacy ...
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ZDM
52 (2020), 3, 407-418
| Lisanne Heilmann
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Young adults from non-intact families are more likely to leave the parental home at an early age than are young adults from intact families. While this association is well established in the existing literature, the underling mechanisms remain puzzling. In a recent investigation with prospective data from the SOEP (van den Berg et al. in Eur J Popul 34(5):873–900, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10680-017-9461-1), ...
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European Journal of Population
36 (2020), 4, 643-674
| Michel Herzig
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Differences in mortality by socio-economic position (SEP) are well established, but there is uncertainty as to which dimension of SEP is most important in what context. This study compares the relationship between three SEP dimensions and mortality in Finland, during the periods 1990–97 and 2000–07, and to existing results for Sweden. We use an 11% random sample from the Finnish population with information ...
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Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
11 (2020), 4, 551-585
| Rasmus Hoffmann, Hannes Kröger, Lasse Tarkianen, Pekka Martikainen
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Despite the rise of in-work poverty across Europe, the psychological consequences of individual economic vulnerability are still rather unknown. Drawing on both objective and subjective conceptualizations of economic vulnerability, we investigate the effects of individual low labour income and perceived financial strain on mental well-being. We argue that economic vulnerability restricts workers? agency ...
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European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology
30 (2021), 6, 790-807
| Katharina Klug, Eva Selenko, Jean-Yves Gerlitz