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Is concern about immigration sufficient to account for the increasing success of Germany’s right-wing populist party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD)? Or does socio-economic deprivation also matter? Using German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data from 2014 to 2024, we find that concern about immigration alone accounts for about 75 percent of explicable variation in AfD support and even for 90 percent ...
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PLOS ONE
21 (2026), 7, e0350403
| Martin Schröder, Moritz Rehm, Anja Röcke
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Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we estimate how having children affects parents’ participation in arts, high- and lowbrow cultural activities, and sports. Identification combines three complementary, well-established strategies: (i) an event-study design around first births; (ii) twin births as exogenous shocks to second and third births; and (iii) sex-composition ...
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Journal of Cultural Economics
(2026),
| Hendrik Sonnabend, Matthias Westphal
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The construction and use of living space require substantial amounts of energy and resources, and generate Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. Historically, the increase in total living space has largely offset improvements in building shell efficiency and heating technologies. Average per-capita space continuously rises due to developments such as smaller household sizes, a preference for single-family ...
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Journal of Housing and the Built Environment
(2026),
| Johannes Thema, Luisa Cordroch, Georg Graser, Alexander Kling, Frauke Wiese
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This paper examines whether dual VET enhances labour market resilience for young adults in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. Using harmonised microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) for the United States, linked via the Comparative Panel File (CPF), we compare unemployment among 25- to 34-year-olds whose highest attained qualification ...
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Journal of Vocational Education & Training
(2026), 1–23
| Lucas Trutwin, Andre Habisch, Johannes Kellner
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Social inequalities in mortality persist as a public health challenge across Europe, including Germany, despite significant health gains. Research shows a lasting social gradient in survival. However, comprehensive longitudinal evidence on cohort and life-course dynamics is limited. We examine trends in social inequalities in all-cause mortality, cohort differences, and whether cumulative low-SES exposure ...
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International Journal for Equity in Health
25 (2026), 1,
| Daniel Tarekegn Worede, Alfons Hollederer
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The energy price crisis following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine exposed the heightened vulnerability of low-income households to rising heating costs, particularly those in energy-inefficient buildings. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this study examines the distributional impact of heating costs across income deciles and evaluates the effectiveness of policy interventions. We ...
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Energy Policy
213 (2026), 115145
| Sophie M. Behr, Merve Kucuk, Maximilian Longmuir, Karsten Neuhoff
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While there is some evidence for changes in personality traits, life satisfaction, and self-esteem as a function of life events, effects have been small and inconsistent across studies. In this preregistered meta-analysis, we summarize the available evidence on personality change in response to life events using data from 44 studies, including 89 samples with a total of 121,187 participants. Results ...
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European Journal of Personality
38 (2024), 3, 544–568
| Janina Larissa Bühler, Ulrich Orth, Wiebke Bleidorn, Elisa Weber, André Kretzschmar, Louisa Scheling, Christopher J. Hopwood
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Cross-country employment differences are concentrated among women, youth, and older individuals. In this paper, we estimate employment, unemployment and labor-force participation flows by age and gender and study their contributions to aggregate employment differences across a large panel of European countries. Employment outflows are the main source of employment variation for prime-age men, whereas ...
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Journal of Monetary Economics
159 (2026), 103929
| Jonathan Créchet, Etienne Lalé, Linas Tarasonis
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The present research examines whether and how well-documented historical changes in resource availability, social embedding, technology, and social norms also manifest in control beliefs?a key psychological marker of individual health and well-being. Drawing on longitudinal data from five waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel (N = 42,158) spanning over 20 years, we analyzed control belief trajectories ...
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European Journal of Personality
(2026), 08902070261454669
| Theresa M. Entringer, Laura Buchinger, Jutta Heckhausen, Nilam Ram, Denis Gerstorf
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Extensive evidence suggests that war-related trauma negatively affects health, yet its long-term and transgenerational effects on psychological and physical adjustment remain poorly understood. This study examines whether individuals who experienced greater war exposure in early childhood—specifically variation in bombardment intensity across German municipalities during the Second World War—show lower, ...
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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
(2026),
| Theresa M. Entringer, Christoph Halbmeier, Laura Buchinger, Anne K. Reitz