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This paper investigates if and how time preferences are related to beliefs regarding one’s own future outcomes. We measure overconfident beliefs using the difference between an individual’s expected position and their observed percentile in the distribution of monthly gross wages one year after our survey. Our regression exercises link this bias measure to information about patience, conditioning on ...
In:
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
92 (2021), 101651
| Tim Friehe, Markus Pannenberg
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Information frictions about benefits of migration can lead to inefficient migration choices. We study the effects of randomly assigned information treatments concerning regional income differentials in Ghana and Uganda to explore participants’ belief updating and changes in internal migration intentions, destination preferences, and actual migration. Treated participants prefer higher income destinations, ...
In:
Journal of Development Economics
171 (2024), 103311
| Sarah Frohnweiler, Bernd Beber, Cara Ebert
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Food banks are returning to the spotlight as their use increases due to the coronavirus pandemic and the influx of Ukrainian refugees to Germany. The current discussion is focused on whether the food banks can handle the increasing number of users as well as the financial and organizational challenges that come with them. Until now, however, no robust, empirical data on food bank use has been available. ...
In:
DIW Weekly Report
39/2022 (2022), 239-244
| Markus M. Grabka, Jürgen Schupp
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Background: Individuals generally see doctors to get physically well, with potential benefits but also costs. We investigate ostracism (feeling ignored and excluded) as one possible factor for frequently seeing doctors. Aims: We test three different conceptual accounts: (1) Ostracism may impact health through stress and social pain processes (i.e., sickness account). (2) Seeing doctors may satisfy ...
In:
European Journal of Health Psychology
(online first) (2024),
| Christiane M. Büttner, Fanny Lalot, Selma C. Rudert, Rainer Greifeneder
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Lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) people face frequent discrimination, maltreatment, and violence for transgressing gender roles upheld in heteronormative societies. Ostracism (i.e., being excluded and ignored) is likely another, understudied form of discrimination against sexual minorities. In a multi-method approach using a nationally representative panel (N = 4104) and experience sampling data (N ...
In:
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
(online first) (2024), 01461672241240675
| Christiane M. Büttner, Selma C. Rudert, Sven Kachel
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Surveys are an indispensable source of data for applied economic research; however, their reliance on self-reported information can introduce bias, especially if core variables such as personal income are misreported. To assess the extent and impact of this misreporting bias, we compare self-reported wages from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with administrative wages from social security records ...
arXiv:
2024,
| Marco Caliendo, Katrin Huber, Ingo E. Isphording, Jakob Wegmann
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We investigate the long-term effects of the introduction of the German minimum wage in 2015 and its subsequent increases on regional employment. Using comprehensive survey data, we are able to measure the regional bite of the minimum wage in 2014, just before its introduction, as well as in 2018, before it was raised substantially in several steps. The introduction mainly affected the labour market ...
In:
Labour Economics
92 (2025), 102648
| Marco Caliendo, Rebecca Olthaus, Nico Pestel
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We study the mating patterns of non-heterosexual individuals, who represent a significant and increasing portion of the population, particularly among the youth. We estimate a multidimensional matching model of the marriage market where partner's gender is endogenously chosen conditional on the agent's sexual orientation, and is subject to trade-offs that depend on both the agents' preferences ...
IZA,
2024,
(IZA DP No. 17420)
| Edoardo Ciscato, Marion Goussé
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This thesis assesses the potential effects of migration on the sending country, focusing on the impacts of migration on human capital stocks and human capital formation. Over the last century, the number of global migrants has increased substantially. The size of this migration and the skills make-up of those migrating is likely to have wide reaching economic impacts on not just the countries where ...
2022,
| Mory Charles Clark
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This paper investigates whether incentives generated by public policies contribute to motherhood penalties. Specifically, we study the consequences of subsidized small jobs, the German Minijobs, which are frequently taken up by first-time mothers upon labor market return. Using a combination of propensity score matching and an event study applied to administrative data, we compare the long-run child ...
München:
CESifo,
2024,
(CESifo Working Paper No. 11508)
| Matthias Collischon, Kamila Cygan-Rehm, Regina T. Riphahn