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Summary Fast online surveys without sampling frames are becoming increasingly important in survey research. Their recruitment methods result in non-probability samples. As the mechanism of data generation is always unknown in such samples, the problem of non-ignorability arises making vgeneralisation of calculated statistics to the population of interest highly questionable. Sensitivity analyses provide ...
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International Statistical Review
(online first) (2024),
| Angelina Hammon, Sabine Zinn
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Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for 1984–2019, this article investigates how changes in environmental concern are associated with changes in general and personal economic conditions. It examines the hypothesis of a trade-off between ecology and economy, i.e., that public concern about the environment increases under favorable economic circumstances, but erodes during unfavorable ...
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Environmental Politics
33 (2023), 1, 25–44
| Jörg Hartmann, Peter Preisendörfer
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Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this article examines (1) the prevalence of vegetarians in Germany, (2) their social profile, and (3) dynamic features of a vegetarian diet and short-term effects on subjective health. As in many other Western countries, the prevalence of vegetarians and vegans in Germany is on an upward trend. In the period 2016–2020, about 7 percent of the Germans ...
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Soziale Welt
75 (2024), 1, 143-161
| Jörg Hartmann, Peter Preisendörfer
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This study examines the familial ties in the social support network of refugees in Germany. It investigates whether distance to family plays a role in the provision of emotional and informational support and how this relationship is moderated by social network services (SNS). Using data from the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees (N = 5237), the paper provides evidence for a family-centred network. Increasing ...
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Journal of Refugee Studies
37 (2024), 3, 645-666
| Ellen Heidinger
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Previous studies showed that worries about the economic situation and job security are associated with childbearing, but evidence is scarce on whether worries about other personal and social issues are also related to childbearing. Drawing on the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, this study examined the relationship between worries about various personal and social issues and the likelihood of having ...
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Population and Development Review
50 (2024), 4, 1239-1266
| Kateryna Golovina, Markus Jokela
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In times of crises, democracies face the challenge of balancing effective interventions with civil liberties. This study examines German states’ responses during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on the trade-off between civil liberties and public health. Using state-level variation in mobility restrictions, we employ a difference-in-differences design to show that stay-at-home orders ...
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European Journal of Political Economy
85 (2024), December 2024, 102593
| Daniel Graeber, Lorenz Meister, Panu Poutvaara
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Critical theories of education and the dynamics of skill formation model predict that the education system reproduces socioeconomic inequalities in educational attainment. Previous empirical studies comparing changes in socioeconomic inequalities in academic performance over the summer to changes in these inequalities during the school year have argued, however, that schooling reduces inequalities ...
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Sociological Science
10 (2023), 880-902
| Michael Grätz
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The diverging destinies hypothesis predicts that educational inequality increases in contemporary societies because parents with higher levels of education postpone the birth of their children. This hypothesis is supported by empirical evidence demonstrating that advanced parental ages improve children?s educational outcomes. However, the consequences of socioeconomic differences in parental ages for ...
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European Societies
26 (2024), 5, 1444-1471
| Michael Grätz, Øyvind N. Wiborg
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Germany played a key role as receiving country during the so-called refugee and displacement crisis with about 5 million asylum seekers arriving in the EU between 2014 and 2020. It is well known that asylum seekers and refugees (ASRs) have a high burden of disease and are particularly prone to mental disorders such as trauma, stress-related and affective disorders. Not much is known about the determinants ...
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BMC Public Health
24 (2024), 1, 1965
| Thomas Grochtdreis, Hans-Helmut König, Judith Dams
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It is known that the health-care service utilization in primary care of persons with a direct migration background is lower compared to non-migrants. However, potential migration-related determinants of health-care service utilization are not known. Therefore, this study aimed to analyze the associations between health-care service utilization and migration-related characteristics of persons with a ...
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The European Journal of Health Economics
(online first) (2024),
| Thomas Grochtdreis, Hans-Helmut König, Judith Dams