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ABSTRACT Understanding risk tolerance is crucial for predicting and changing behavior across various domains, including health and safety, finance, and ethics. This remains true during a crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, and leads to a key question: Do current risk measures reliably predict risk-taking in the drastically different context of a pandemic? The Domain Specific Risk-Taking (DOSPERT) ...
In:
Journal of Behavioral Decision Making
37 (2024), 4, e2413
| Benno Guenther, Matteo M. Galizzi, Jet G. Sanders
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In the social and behavioral sciences, surveys are frequently used to collect data. During the COVID-19 pandemic, surveys provided political actors and public health professionals with timely insights on the attitudes and behaviors of the general population. These insights were key in guiding actions to fight the pandemic. However, the data quality of these surveys remains unclear because systematic ...
In:
Scientific Data
11 (2024), 1, 619
| Tobias Gummer, Thomas Skora, Karolina von Glasenapp, Elias Naumann
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Asylum recognition rates in advanced democracies differ not only across states but also vary within them, translating into fluctuating individual chances to obtain protection. Existing studies on the determinants of these regional inequities typically rely on aggregate data. Utilizing a German refugee survey and leveraging a quasi-natural experiment arising from state-based allocation rules tied to ...
In:
Migration Studies
(online first) (2024),
| Lidwina Gundacker, Yuliya Kosyakova, Gerald Schneider
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Background There is a significant gap in sleep duration across countries with 56 percent of the Japanese population sleeps less than seven hours per day against around 30 percent in the United Kingdom (UK), Germany, and Australia. Similarly, labour market characteristics differ across these countries, with average working hours being higher in Australia and Japan compared to the UK and Germany, but ...
In:
medRxiv
medRxiv
| Ya Guo, Senhu Wang, Rong Fu, Jacques Wels
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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 2,500 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 6% of SOEP-based ...
DIW Berlin,
2024,
| Lukas Fink, Jan Marcus
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Cognitive abilities are associated with key preferences and socio-economic outcomes. One of the most frequently studied cognitive abilities is cognitive reflection, the ability to avoid intuitive but potentially wrong decisions by switching to a more analytical mindset. Using rich panel data in this pre-registered study, we show that stronger cognitive reflection is significantly associated with more ...
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Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics
3 (2025), 2, 303-343
| Frank M. Fossen, Levent Neyse, Carsten Schröder
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This dissertation intends to gain insights into the careers of junior academics. In more detail, the work addresses the following general research questions: (i) What career goals do doctoral candidates from the STEM disciplines pursue and what factors are associated with the academic career goal of becoming a professor and with non-academic career goals of becoming a manager or an entrepreneur? (ii) ...
2021,
| Irina Frei
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This study examines how being a tied or lead mover relates to the ethnic identity of migrant spouses. Tied and lead movers differ in their migration motivations, face different constraints, and opportunities (e.g., social network through work). This is likely to be reflected in different investment strategies and adjustment patterns in the host country. To study the adjustment of tied and lead movers, ...
In:
Review of Economics of the Household
(2024),
| Teresa Freitas-Monteiro
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Asylum seekers migrating from developing countries to Europe frequently experience victimization events during their journey. The consequences for their economic integration into destination countries are not yet well explored. In this paper, we analyze how victimization during asylum seekers’ journey affects their economic integration in Germany using survey data collected in the aftermath of the ...
2021,
| Teresa Freitas-Monteiro, Lars Ludolph
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Abstract Religiosity influences economic behavior in various domains, but what determines religiosity? Using data from the representative Socio-Economic Panel Study for Germany (SOEP), this paper shows that religious activity increases after a family member's death. The life event's effect is larger after a partner's death when compared to a parent's death. Our results indicate ...
In:
Kyklos
77 (2024), 2, 458-468
| Tim Friehe, Christian Pfeifer