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Demographers use microsimulation for studying individual life courses and their attributes; events are specified to be the result of stochastic processes based on predetermined probabilistic rules. In this study, we developed and validated a microsimulation model to reconstruct individual’s life courses and their interactions in different regions of the European Union. One of the main objectives of ...
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2023,
| Claudio Bosco, Sabine Zinn, Daniela Ghio, Maurizio Teobaldelli, Stefano Maria Iacus
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Climate movements have gained momentum in recent years, aiming to create public awareness of the consequences of climate change through salient climate protests. This paper investigates whether concerns about climate change increase following demonstrative protests and confrontational acts of civil disobedience. Leveraging individual-level survey panel data from Germany, we exploit exogenous variations ...
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Nature Communications
15 (2024), 1, 2916
| Johannes Brehm, Henri Gruhl
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Research on reconciling family and employment debates if maternal part-time employment works as ‘stepping stone’ to full-time employment or as gateway to a long-term ‘mommy track’. We analyse how mothers’ transition from part-time to full-time employment is shaped by changing reconciliation legislations and how this is moderated by reconciliation-relevant factors like individual behaviours and macro ...
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Journal of European Social Policy
34 (2024), 3, 354-369
| Uta Brehm, Nadja Milewski
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Did the COVID-19 pandemic crowd out environmental concerns, as one might expect if “pools of worry” were finite or “moral bandwidth” was limited? We use Chancellor Angela Merkel’s address to the German nation on 18 March 2020 as the threshold in a regression discontinuity in time (RDiT) to evaluate the effects of an increase in COVID-based economic and health concerns on the climate and environmental ...
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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
228 (2024), 106753
| Julia Berazneva, Daniel Graeber, Michelle McCauley, Sabine Zinn, Peter Hans Matthews
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Extracurricular activities in adolescence are associated with adolescents’ cognitive skills. While participation in extracurricular activities is stratified, it is unclear whether all adolescents benefit from such activities to the same extent. This study explores whether participation in extracurricular activities functions as an equalizer or reinforcer of inequalities by examining how different types ...
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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
90 (2024), April 2024, 100895
| Henriette Bering, Wiebke Schulz
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Refugees have limited health care entitlements during the asylum process. In February 2024, the maximum length of this exclusion period was increased from 18 to 36 months. This increase may double the actual waiting time, which is currently already more than one year, as data from the Socio-Economic Panel show. This particularly affects refugees with a low level of education and little knowledge of ...
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DIW Weekly Report
12/2024 (2024), 97-105
| Louise Biddle
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We evaluate the distributional effects of a minimum wage introduction based on a data set with a moderate sample size but a large number of potential covariates. Therefore, the selection of relevant control variables at each distributional threshold is crucial to test hypotheses about the impact of the treatment. To this end, we use the post-double selection logistic distribution regression approach ...
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Econometrics Journal
(Online First) (2024),
| Martin Biewen, Pascal Erhardt
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Previous literature has identified income, health status and social relationships as the most important predictors of subjective wellbeing (SWB). In addition, the literature has identified a non-linear relationship between age and SWB, with a dip in SWB in midlife. Explanations of the non-linear age–SWB relationship include the notion of unmet aspirations and the idea that people's emotional response ...
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Economica
91 (2024), 363, 809-836
| Jürgen Bitzer, Erkan Gören, Heinz Welsch
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We examine how inequality evolved in Germany during the 1983-2020 period. Labor market participation of women increased significantly, while average weekly working hours of women changed little. Gender differences in earnings are still pervasive and more pronounced for individuals with children. Inequality in earnings and disposable household income increased from the 1990s until 2005. Since then, ...
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EConPol Forum
25 (2024), 2, 47-52
| Maximilian Blömer, Elena Herold, Max Lay, Andreas Peichl, Ann-Christin Rathje, Paul Schüle, Anne Steuernagel
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Greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced by 65 percent compared to 1990 by 2030 to achieve national climate targets. Nearly one third of greenhouse gas emissions in Germany are caused by private household consumption. Using Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data, this Weekly Report calculates the amount of CO2 equivalents emitted by households due to residential energy use, nutrition, and transport in Germany. ...
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DIW Weekly Report
27/2024 (2024), 179-186
| Sandra Bohmann, Merve Küçük