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Indirect psychological effects induced by crime are likely to contribute significantly to the total costs of crime beyond the financial costs of direct victimization. Using detailed crime statistics for the whole of Germany and linking them to individual-level mental health information from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we analyze whether local crime rates affect the mental health of residents. ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2015,
(SOEPpapers 737)
| Daniel Avdic, Christian Bünnings
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Citizenship rights are associated with better economic opportunities for immigrants. This paper studies how in a country with a large fraction of temporary migrants the fertility decisions of foreign citizens respond to a change in the rules that regulate child legal status at birth. The introduction of birthright citizenship in Germany in 2000, represented a positive shock to the returns to investment ...
In:
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
6 (2014), 4, 35-65
| Ciro Avitabile, Irma Clots-Figueras, Paolo Masella
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Risk aversion might affect current and potential teachers’ reaction to reforms, in particular payment reforms. However, evidence on teachers’ risk aversion in comparison to other occupations is limited. The present study is based on twelve waves of a representative German data set (N = 18,381) and shows that teaching relates positively to risk aversion, especially to risk aversion with respect to occupational ...
In:
Education Economics
28 (2020), January 2020, 4-25
| Adam Ayaita, Kathleen Stürmer
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Several studies have analyzed motives to work in the public versus private sector. However, research on prosocial motivation in the context of public sector employment has largely neglected civic virtue, the motive to contribute to society. This study considers civic virtue in addition to other possible motives, using a representative, longitudinal dataset of employees in Germany including 63,180 observations ...
In:
German Economic Review
20 (2019), 4, 571-599
| Omar Adam Ayaita, Filiz Gülal, Philip Yang
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This article aims to present an assessment of the effects of panel attrition on income mobility comparisons for some EU countries by using the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). There are different possibilities of correcting the attrition problem by means of alternative longitudinal weighting schemes. The sensitivity of mobility estimates to these attrition correction procedures is tested ...
In:
Applied Economics
43 (2011), 25, 3495–3521
| Luis Ayala, Carolina Navarro, Mercedes Sastre
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We investigate the relationship between housing conditions and health outcomes using a data set that tracks 25,000 German households over 25 years. We document that individuals exposed to poor housing conditions report worse mental and physical health, and experience an 11% increase in doctor visits, increasing to 20% for age groups over 64. The analysis controls for individual, dwelling, and temporal ...
In:
Real Estate Economics
49 (2021), 4, 1172-1200
| Erdal Aydin, Piet Eichholtz, Nils Kok, Juan Palacios
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Youth is one of the phases in the life-cycle when some of the most decisive life transitions take place. Entering the labour market or leaving parental home are events with important consequences for the economic well-being of young adults. In this paper, the interrelationship between employment, residential emancipation and poverty dynamics is studied for eight European countries by means of an econometric ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2009,
(SOEPpapers 235)
| Sara Ayllón
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This paper studies the nature of youth poverty dynamics in Europe. First, it analyzes to what extent experiencing poverty in a given period is in itself positively related to the probability of living below the poverty line again in the future. That is, we assess the degree of poverty genuine state dependence among young people. Second, we study the interrelationships between poverty, employment, and ...
In:
Review of Income and Wealth
61 (2015), 4, 651-676
| Sara Ayllón
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Background: A growing body of research has identified an association between health and physical residential environmental characteristics. However, the direction of effects remains unclear, and further research is needed to determine whether the residential environment influences health.Objectives: To specify the direction of the association between environmental disadvantage and self-reported health. ...
In:
International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health
22 (2016), 1, 1-6
| Johanna Baar, Matthias Romppel, Ulrike Igel, Elmar Brähler, Gesine Grande
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Although universal childcare has become an essential tool to support child development, few economic studies analyze its effects on non-cognitive skills and little is known about causal effects on these skills in the long run. In this paper we go beyond short run analyses and examine the long run effects of one additional year of universal childcare on students’ personality traits in adolescence. We ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2019,
(DIW Discussion Paper 1815)
| Maximilian Bach, Josefine Koebe, Frauke H. Peter