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Involuntary Changes in Commuting Distances: Effects on Subjective Well-Being in the Era of Mobile Internet

Commuting is a fundamental aspect of employees’ daily routines and continues to evolve with technological advancements. Yet the effects of commuting on subjective well-being remain insufficiently investigated in the context of expanding digital connectivity. This paper examines the causal effects of changes in commuting distance on subjective well-being in an era of widespread mobile internet availability. ...

Asylum seekers and host country mental health: Evidence from Germany and Switzerland

Due to recent conflicts and humanitarian issues, millions of people have sought asylum in countries in Europe. The influx of asylum seekers has sparked debates about the impacts of such migratory flows on resident populations. We study how the recent migration of these forcibly displaced people into Europe affects the mental health of the receiving country residents in Switzerland and Germany. We exploit ...

Introduction to the symposium on reproducibility and replicability in economics: Part I

Is a sorrow shared a sorrow doubled? Parental unemployment and the life satisfaction of adolescent children

This paper examines the possible spillover effects of parental unemployment on the subjective well-being of 12- to 21-year-old children. Using German panel data (SOEP), we show that unemployment of fathers and mothers is negatively associated with their children’s life satisfaction. When controlling for time-invariant individual heterogeneity, our results suggest that maternal unemployment has adverse ...

Energy poverty and health: Micro-level evidence from Germany

This paper aims to understand the health effects of energy poverty in Germany using SOEP panel data from 2010 to 2020. Linear probability and fixed effects ordered logit models reveal a consistently negative relationship of three expenditures-based energy poverty indicators with general health: the odds ratio of being in better health decreases between about 6 % and 8 %. This association is stronger ...

Much to lose, no credentials to prove it – Educational aspirations and intentions of adult refugees as means of occupational status re-attainment

We analyse how educational aspirations and intentions of adult refugees in Germany are shaped by their foreign educational credentials and their previous occupational status. Because the allocation of medium-skilled jobs on the German labour market heavily relies on a variety of credentials, unlike in the countries of origin, where skills are usually acquired on the job but not formally certified, ...

Thanks, but no thanks: A microsimulation of BAföG eligibility and non-take-up

While the body of literature on the non-take-up of public aid has grown substantially in recent years, a notable gap remains in the literature of non-take-up rates for student aid programs, where research is still extremely limited. This paper examines the non-take-up rate of Germany's federal student aid program BAföG by creating a microsimulation based on data from the German Socio-Economic ...

Feeling equal before the law? The impact of access to citizenship and legal status on perceived discrimination

In this study, we contribute to the literature about the effects of improving access to citizenship on integration outcomes. Hereby, we exploit exogenous variation from two citizenship reforms in Germany to estimate the effects of residency requirements on perceived discrimination, which is strongly linked to individual well-being, sense of belonging, and migration desires and decisions. We find that ...

Income or leisure? On the hidden benefits of (un)employment

Do unemployed people benefit from more free time, while consumption is the sole motive for employed people to accept a life with less available time? Does this apply equally to men and women? To inform ongoing policy debates on how to address the problem of unemployment, we provide a comprehensive discussion of the traditionally assumed trade-off between income and leisure in labor supply decisions, ...

Pre-Trained Nonresponse Prediction in Panel Surveys with Machine Learning

While predictive modeling for unit nonresponse in panel surveys has been explored in variouscontexts, it is still under-researched how practitioners can best adopt these techniques. Currently, practitioners need to wait until they accumulate enough data in their panel to train and evaluate their own modeling options. This paper presents a novel “cross-training” technique in which we show that the indicators ...