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Abstract In line with the social investment principle, becoming a parent should lead to more mature behaviour and an increase in conscientiousness, agreeableness, and emotional stability. However, previous research provided mixed results that do not support this idea. Here, we used data from a nationally representative household panel study from Germany (N = 19 875) to examine whether becoming a parent ...
In:
European Journal of Personality
35 (2021), 1, 85-102
| Eva Asselmann, Jule Specht
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We study the impact of the macroeconomic environment on mental health in Germany. Endogeneity concerns are tackled using a shift-share instrumental variables approach in which exposure to macroeconomic fluctuations is estimated from regional variations in historical industry sector composition. Estimation results reveal strong procyclical effects on the 12-item short form survey’s mental health component ...
In:
European Economic Review
140 (2020), November 2021, 103915
| Daniel Avdic, Sonja C. de New, Daniel A. Kamhöfer
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Does the federal minimum wage in Germany introduced in 2015 improve the income situation of low income households and reduce in-work poverty? Previous literature on its distributional impact was either focused on earnings and hourly wages (e.g. Caliendo et al., 2017), or is based on ex-ante simulations (e.g. Müller and Steiner, 2013). This paper provides systematic descriptive ex-post evidence on the ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2019,
(DIW Discussion Paper 1805)
| Teresa Backhaus, Kai-Uwe Müller
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Panel data from the German SOEP is used to test for risk vulnerability (RV) in the wider population. Two different survey responses are analysed: the response to the question about willingness-to-take risk in general and the chosen investment in a hypothetical lottery. A convenient indicator of background risk is the VDAX index, an established measure of volatility in the German stock market. This ...
In:
Theory and Decision
88 (2020), 1, 37-50
| Philomena M. Bacon, Anna Conte, Peter G. Moffatt
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SOEP Survey Papers ; 867 : Series B - Survey Reports (Methodenberichte) / 2020
2020| Bettina Zweck, Axel Glemser
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SOEP Survey Papers ; 868: Series D - Variable Description and Coding / 2020
2020| Tabea Naujoks
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SOEP Survey Papers ; 870: Series D - Variable Description and Coding / 2020
2020| Tabea Naujoks
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SOEP Survey Papers ; 869: Series D - Variable Description and Coding / 2020
2020| Tabea Naujoks
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SOEP Survey Papers ; 873: Series D - Variable Description and Coding / 2020
2020| Paul Schmelzer, Antonia Briel
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SOEP Survey Papers ; 877: Series D - Variable Description and Coding / 2020
2020| Paul Schmelzer, Maik Hamjediers