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Gender differences in risk attitudes are frequently observed and the scientific community widely agrees upon their existence. However, recent literature has challenged the notion that the gender gap is ubiquitous. In this literature review, the recent literature is examined with the purpose of verifying the existence of gender differences in risk attitudes and then examining the determinants of the ...
2024,
| Samu Järvisaari
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The German “Tax-Reform 2000” involved a strong reduction in the progressivity of labor income taxation. It led to a rise in overall labor income, but also increased income inequality. Utilizing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP. 2016. Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), Data for Years 1984–2016, Version 33) for the years 1998–2007, we employ a general equilibrium framework à la Antràs et al. ...
In:
German Economic Review
(online first) (2024),
| Benjamin Jung, Timo Walter
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The German “Tax-Reform 2000” involved a strong reduction in the progressivity of labor income taxation. It led to a rise in overall labor income, but also increased income inequality. Utilizing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP. 2016. Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), Data for Years 1984–2016, Version 33) for the years 1998–2007, we employ a general equilibrium framework à la Antràs et al. ...
In:
German Economic Review
25 (2024), 3, 209-239
| Benjamin Jung, Timo Walter
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Patient empowerment calls for an intensified participation of (informed) patients with more treatment opportunities to choose from. A growing body of literature argues that confronting consumers with too many opportunities can lead to a choice overload (CO) resulting in uncertainty that the selected alternative dominates all other options in the choice set. We examine whether there is a CO effect in ...
In:
International Journal of Health Economics and Management
24 (2024), 3, 357-373
| Helmut Herwartz, Christoph Strumann
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This study aims to address the questionnaire design challenges in cases wherein questions involve a large number of response options. Traditionally, these long-list questions are asked in open-ended or closed-ended formats. However, alternative interface design options are emerging in computer-assisted surveys that combine both interface designs. To investigate trade-offs of these alternative designs, ...
In:
International Journal of Social Research Methodology
23 (2020), 6, 639-650
| Jessica M. E. Herzing
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This study shows that supporters of right-wing populist parties in Germany and the United Kingdom tend to be less patient than supporters of other parties and thus more prone to favor immediate gratification over long-term outcomes. Our empirical analysis highlights that a direct link between impatience and the support for right-wing populism remains even after controlling for life outcomes, such as ...
SSRN,
2024,
(SSRN Working Paper)
| Clemens Hetschko, Thomas Aronsson, Ronnie Schöb
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Abstract Ambient social sexual behaviour at work refers to sexual jokes and conversations at the workplace. Prior cross-sectional studies indicate that this behaviour is relatively widespread and tends to be associated with negative well-being. We revisit this research by investigating the outcomes of sexual jokes and conversations at work after 1 year in a comparatively large employee sample. The ...
In:
Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
97 (2024), 3, 767-775
| Sabine Hommelhoff, David Richter, Susanne Scheibe
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While neuroticism is known to change throughout people’s lives, the specific causes of these changes remain poorly understood. One underexplored question is whether specific professions and associated job characteristics can foster neuroticism. Drawing on Cybernetic Big Five Theory (CB5T), we propose business-to-business (B2B) sales jobs entail frequent experiences of uncertainty, which over time increase ...
In:
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
184 (2024), 104353
| Johannes Habel, Selma Kadić-Maglajlić, Nathaniel N. Hartmann, Ad de Jong, Nicolas A. Zacharias, Fabian Kosse
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Increasing residential mobility is said to challenge existing social support systems as mobility raises geographic distances between family members. Since family social support is essential for health and well-being, this study investigates whether residential mobility affects familial social support following changes in proximity to family and kin. By applying a stepwise linear regression on data ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
172 (2024), 1, 99-120
| Kyra Hagge, Diana Schacht
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Objective To determine the association between personality characteristics and use of different cancer screenings. Methods We used data from the German National Cohort (NAKO; mean age was 53.0 years (SD: 9.2 years)) – a population-based cohort study. A total of 132,298 individuals were included in the analyses. As outcome measures, we used (self-reported): stool examination for blood (haemoccult test, ...
In:
Preventive Medicine Reports
41 (2024), May 2024, 102677
| André Hajek, Heiko Becher, Hermann Brenner, Bernd Holleczek, Verena Katzke, et al.