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Prior research with predominantly younger to middle-aged samples has demonstrated that couples’ cortisol levels covary throughout the day (cortisol synchrony). Not much is known about cortisol synchrony in old age, and its potential broader societal correlates. The current study investigates associations between the socio-political context and cortisol synchrony as observed in older couples’ daily ...
In:
Psychoneuroendocrinology
124 (2021), 105082
| Theresa Pauly, Karolina Kolodziejczak, Johanna Drewelies, Denis Gerstorf, Nilam Ram, Christiane A. Hoppmann
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This paper explores the effect of COVID-19 infection rates on individuals’ risk preferences using the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Findings show that the spread of COVID-19 does not significantly alter risk preferences. While we do find that individuals with prior cardiovascular diseases reduce their preference for risk-taking, this zero effect is remarkably stable across subgroups of the population. ...
2024,
(SSRN Working Paper)
| Daniel Graeber, Ulrich Schmidt, Carsten Schröder, Johannes Seebauer
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Several vaccines against COVID-19 have now been developed and are already being rolled out around the world. The decision whether or not to get vaccinated has so far been left to the individual citizens. However, there are good reasons, both in theory as well as in practice, to believe that the willingness to get vaccinated might not be sufficiently high to achieve herd immunity. A policy of mandatory ...
In:
PLOS ONE
16 (2021), 5, e0248372
| Daniel Graeber, Christoph Schmidt-Petri, Carsten Schröder
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We evaluate two variants of a school-based, intensive learning camp for pupils who are assessed 'not ready' for further education after compulsory school, using a stratified cluster randomized trial involving 15,559 pupils in 264 schools in Denmark. Next to training pupils in Danish and mathematics, the main variant targets non-cognitive skills, while the alternative variant instead uses ...
Bonn:
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA),
2020,
(IZA DP No. 13771)
| Charlotte Hvidman, Alexander Koch, Julia Nafziger, Søren A. Nielsen, Michael Rosholm
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We analyze workers’ risk preferences and training investments. Our conceptual framework differentiates between the investment risk and insurance mechanisms underpinning training decisions. Investment risk leads risk-averse workers to train less; they undertake more training if it insures them against future losses. We use the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to demonstrate that risk affinity is associated ...
In:
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
205 (2023), 668-686
| Marco Caliendo, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Cosima Obst, Arne Uhlendorff
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The empirical literature is inconclusive about whether a country’s democratization goes hand in hand with a reallocation of economic resources. With newly available individual-level data of former residents of the socialist German Democratic Republic (GDR), we analyse how supporters and opponents of the socialist system performed within the market-based democracy of West Germany after reunification. ...
In:
European Journal of Political Economy
76 (2023), 2023, 102252
| Max Deter, Martin Lange
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Estimating the returns to migration from East to West Germany, we focus on pre-migration employment dynamics, earnings uncertainty, and job change. Migrants are found to be negatively selected with respect to labor market outcomes, with a large drop in earnings and employment during the last few months before migration. We find sizeable positive earnings and employment gains of migration both in comparison ...
Bonn:
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA),
2020,
(IZA DP No. 13740)
| Julian Emmler, Bernd Fitzenberger
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We study the causal effect of local labor market conditions and attitudes towards immigrants at the time of arrival on refugees’ multi-dimensional integration outcomes (economic, linguistic, navigational, political, psychological, and social). Using a unique dataset on refugees, we leverage a centralized allocation policy in Germany where refugees were exogenously assigned to live in specific counties. ...
In:
Journal of Urban Economics
137 (2023), September 2023, 103588
| Cevat G. Aksoy, Panu Poutvaara, Felicitas Schikora
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Personality predicts how we interact with others, what partners we have, and how happy and lasting our romantic relationships are. At the same time, our experiences in these relationships may affect our personality. Who experiences specific major relationship events and how do these events relate to personality development? We examined this issue based on data from a nationally representative household ...
In:
Developmental Psychology
56 (2020), 9, 1803-1816
| Eva Asselmann, Jule Specht
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Dear colleagues,
A challenging and eventful year is coming to a close. We have probably all been affected by the coronavirus pandemic in some way—at the very least by having to change many of our plans. In this newsletter, we would like to share some positive end-of-year news from the SOEP. Please pay particular attention to the job openings ...