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Migrant households in Germany hold significantly less wealth than native households, with disparities varying by origin and generation. Using SOEP data (2012, 2017), this study quantifies gaps across the wealth distribution and examines income, saving rates, and portfolio composition. Migrants from low- and middle-income countries exhibit the largest gaps, with persistent disadvantages in the upper ...
In:
The Journal of Economic Inequality
(online first) (2025),
| Rudolf Faininger, Svenja Flechtner
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A growing literature suggests a remarkable heterogeneity in skills and preferences. Although these heterogeneities play an important role in the determination of life outcomes, little is known about their origins. We propose and validate the breastfeeding duration as measure of early lifecircumstances and explore its effects in the development process of risk, time and social preferences. We do so ...
Malaga:
2012,
| Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse
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We study how economic information diffuses within the household, leveraging an information-provision experiment with a representative sample of households from Germany. A random sample of household members received information about their household’s position in the income distribution. When provided with information directly, there are no gender differences in how individuals update their beliefs. ...
In:
Journal of Public Economics
239 (2024), 105213
| Dietmar Fehr, Johanna Mollerstrom, Ricardo Perez-Truglia
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Abstract Providing replication code is an inexpensive way to facilitate reproducibility. However, little is known about the extent of replication code provision. Therefore, we examine the availability of replication code for over 2500 peer-reviewed articles based on the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), one of the most widely used datasets in economics and other social sciences. We find that only ...
In:
Economic Inquiry
(online first) (2024),
| Lukas Fink, Jan Marcus
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In this paper we estimate the effect of unemployment on informal care provision. For the identification we use plant closures as a source of exogenous variation and combine difference-in-differences with matching based on entropy balancing. The analysis is based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). We find that there is a time conflict between employment and informal care provision. ...
In:
Journal of the Economics of Ageing
23 (2022), October 2022, 100395
| Björn Fischer, Peter Haan, Santiago Salazar Sanchez
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The rise of populism challenges numerous Western democracies and their institutions. In this round-up, we examine economic and societal conditions that are driving forces behind populism. We focus on five domains that are closely interlinked with populist support: globalization, financial crises, migration, inequality, and social mobility. Each domain offers unique insights into how societal shifts, ...
Berlin:
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW),
2023,
(DIW Roundup: Politik im Fokus No. 145)
| Carl Leonard Fischer, Lorenz Meister
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Personality is associated with important life outcomes such as occupational status, and there is continued interest in understanding how family processes shape people’s character. Previous research has shown that despite being exposed to a common family environment, sibling personalities differ substantially. We test one explanation of this phenomenon: differential parental support within families. ...
In:
Advances in Life Course Research
(online first) (2025), 100658
| William Foley, Lea Kröger, Jonas Radl
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What factors influence refugees' perceptions of justice in bureaucratic institutions? As global migration movements draw increasing attention, migrants' experiences as constituents in destination countries merit further research. Drawing evidence from the 2018 survey of refugees participating in the German Socio-Economic Panel, this article examines the role of legal status in shaping perceptions ...
In:
Public Administration Review
85 (2025), 4, 1004-1018
| Emily Frank, Anton Nivorozhkin
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People’s risk preferences are thought to be central to many consequential real-life decisions, making it important to identify robust correlates of this construct. Various psychological theories have put forth a series of candidate correlates, yet the strength and robustness of their associations remain unclear because of disparate operationalizations of risk preference and analytic limitations in ...
In:
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
120 (2021), 2, 538-557
| Renato Frey, David Richter, Jürgen Schupp, Ralph Hertwig, Rui Mata
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This paper tests the conjecture that involuntary job loss erodes trust. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel and considering how trust evolves over a quinquennial time interval, we find that job loss decreases trust by about 9 percent of a standard deviation.
In:
Journal of Economic Psychology
84 (2021), 102369
| Tim Friehe, Jan Marcus