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We revisit the Easterlin paradox about the flatness of the happiness trend over the long run, in spite of sustained economic development. With a bounded scale that explicitly refers to “the best possible life for you” and “the worst possible life for you”, is it even possible to observe a rising trend in self-declared life satisfaction? We consider the possibility of rescaling, i.e. that the interpretation ...
Paris School of Economics,
2024,
(Working Paper No. 2024-61)
| Alberto Prati, Claudia Senik
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Empirical evidence suggests that a large proportion of immigrants who initially intended to stay temporarily in the destination country end up staying permanently, which may lead to suboptimal integration. We study systematic causes of unexpected staying that originate in migrant misperceptions. Our framework contains uncertainty about long-term wages, endogenous integration and savings in the short ...
In:
Journal of Mathematical Economics
117 (2025), 103099
| Marc Kaufmann, Joël Machado, Bertrand Verheyden
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This article examines how the characteristics of people needing care determine the provision of family care and the time intensity of caring for men and women. Using novel data, we conduct linear (probability) regression models and find that women face family care demands as often as men but tend to provide more (time-intensive) care. When of retirement age, men are more likely than women to meet care ...
In:
International Journal of Care and Caring
(online first) (2024), 1-17
| Nadiya Kelle, Ulrike Ehrlich
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Volunteers’ time contributions have decreased in some European societies, and researchers have sought to understand why. This study aims to uncover the relationship between work-family life changes and changes in individual voluntary behaviour with volunteers’ time contributions. To analyse how determinants for volunteer time contributions have changed over time, we draw on cross-sectional data from ...
In:
VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations
35 (2024), 6, 1219-1233
| Nadiya Kelle, Corinna Kausmann, Julia Simonson
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A new algorithmic approach to personality prototyping based on Big Five traits was applied to a large representative and longitudinal German dataset (N = 22,820) including behavior, personality and health correlates. We applied three different clustering techniques, latent profile analysis, the k-means method and spectral clustering algorithms. The resulting cluster centers, i.e. the personality prototypes, ...
In:
PLOS ONE
16 (2021), 1, e0244849
| André Kerber, Marcus Roth, Philipp Yorck Herzberg
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Evidence from intergenerational correlations and sibling correlations shows that intergenerational persistence in wealth is substantially large and similar in size compared to income persistence. The intergenerational persistence in wealth is partly due to the direct transfers of wealth from parents to children, which makes wealth unique compared to other resources such as education and income. Furthermore, ...
In:
Elina Kilpi-Jakonen, Jo Blanden, Jani Erola, Lindsey Macmillan ,
Research Handbook on Intergenerational Inequality
Edward Elgar Publishing
86-99
| Elina Kilpi-Jakonen, Jo Blanden, Jani Erola, Lindsey Macmillan, Philipp M. Lersch, Maximilian Longmuir, Daniel D. Schnitzlein
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Abstract As a consequence of increasing human-wildlife encounters, the associated potential for human-wildlife conflict rises. The dependency of conservation management actions on the acceptance or even the participation of people requires modern conservation strategies that take the human dimension of wildlife management into account. In the first place, conservationists therefore need to understand ...
In:
Conservation Science and Practice
2 (2020), 7, e212
| Sophia E. Kimmig, Danny Flemming, Joachim Kimmerle, Ulrike Cress, Miriam Brandt
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Entrepreneurs tend to be risk tolerant but is higher risk tolerance always better? In a sample of about 2100 small businesses, we find an inverted U-shaped relation between risk tolerance and profitability. This relationship holds in a simple bilateral regression, and even after controlling for a large set of individual and business characteristics. Apparently, one major transmission goes from risk ...
In:
Small Business Economics
64 (2024), 4, 1643-1670
| Melanie Koch, Lukas Menkhoff
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A substantial body of research examines entry into and exit from self-employment. However, little is known about the career patterns of the self-employed, their transitions into and from self-employment and the success associated with different patterns of their careers. To address these issues, we examine the career patterns of individuals with self-employment experience and their relationship to ...
In:
Journal of Business Venturing
36 (2021), 1, 105998
| Michael Koch, Sarah Park, Shaker A. Zahra
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The objective of this paper is to contribute to the environmental valuation literature by providing a comprehensive assessment of the economic value of land cover in Germany using two different approaches; the subjective well-being approach and the hedonic pricing approach. The empirical analysis is based on socio-economic information of the SOEP and detailed land cover information for more than 9000 ...
Berlin:
2012,
| Angela Kopmann, Katrin Rehdanz