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SSRN Working Paper / 2024
This paper estimates the effect of increased early childcare availability on maternal health. We focus on a substantial expansion of early childcare in West Germany from 2006 to 2019. By matching county-level childcare attendance rates with individual data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we find that a 10-percentage point increase in childcare availability decreases mothers’ self-assessed ...
2024| Marina Krauß, Niklas Rott
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Turning points describe a fundamental change of direction in a life course trajectory. However, they are challenging to study because of their temporal extension, the complexity of processes at stake during those critical life sequences, and the fact that individuals’ interpretation as well as more objective changes in social status and position play important roles in turning points. Panel-based mixed ...
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Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
12 (2021), 1, 41-62
| Nicolas M. Legewie, Ingrid Tucci
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The economic consequences of divorce and sep a ra tion for women are com monly asso ci ated with the chronic strain model, according to which women's losses are large and per sis tent. This research note shifts the focus to a cri sis model high light ing women's poten tial of, and routes to, recov ery from ini tial losses. Drawing on Ger man SocioEconomic Panel data (1984-2021) on women in ...
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DEMOGRAPHY
61 (2024), 3, 597-613
| Thomas Leopold, Matthijs Kalmijn
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Recent research has documented that the effect of parental separation on children’s educational outcomes depends on socioeconomic background. Yet, parental separation could lead to a stable single-parent family or to a further transition to a stepfamily. Little is known about how the effect of family structure transitions on educational outcomes depends on the education of parents and stepparents, ...
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Advances in Life Course Research
60 (2024), 100610
| Kristina Lindemann
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Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, hygiene behaviors such as keeping distance, avoiding masses, wearing face masks, and complying with hand hygiene recommendations became imperative. The current study aims to determine factors interrelating with hygiene behaviors. Methods: A total of 4049 individuals (1305 male, 2709 female, aged 18–80 years) were recruited from rehabilitation clinics or freely ...
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Hygiene
2 (2022), 1, 28-43
| Sonia Lippke, Franziska M. Keller, Christina Derksen, Lukas Kötting, Alina Dahmen
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This paper analyses trends in mortality inequality in 330 Chilean communes from 1990 to 2010 for different age groups and both genders. Chile had substantial inequalities in local-level mortality rates in 1990 but by 2010 these disparities had significantly decreased, especially among infants, children and the elderly. The only exception was Chilean men aged 20-39, for whom inequality in mortality ...
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Fiscal Studies
46 (2025), 1, 139–162
| Gedeao Locks
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Vor dem Hintergrund steigender Lebenserwartung stellt sich die Frage, in welchem Gesundheitszustand die hinzugewonnenen Lebensjahre verbracht werden. Ziel der vorliegenden Untersuchung ist die erstmalige Berechnung regional differenzierter Unterschiede in gesunder Lebenserwartung für Deutschland.
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Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz
67 (2024), 5, 546-554
| Elke Loichinger, Thomas Skora, Markus Sauerberg, Pavel Grigoriev
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Emotional stressor reactivity and recovery from stressors are associated with the personality trait neuroticism. We examined whether higher extraversion or openness might buffer these associations in daily life. Participants from two age-heterogeneous samples (lifespan: n = 364, aged 14–88 years; late adulthood: n = 170, aged 66–89 years) answered personality questionnaires and reported their momentary ...
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Journal of Research in Personality
109 (2024), April 2024, 104474
| Anna J. Lücke, Oliver K. Schilling, Ute Kunzmann, Denis Gerstorf, Martin Katzorreck-Gierden, Christiane A. Hoppmann, Gloria Luong, Gert G. Wagner, Michaela Riediger, Cornelia Wrzus
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Aim: It appears to be common knowledge that civic engagement yields mental health benefits for the engaged individual, particularly if older adults are civically engaged. However, although such claims are consistent with theoretical considerations, empirical support for them is rather scarce and was often based on cross-sectional data. The aim of this thesis was to investigate the mental health benefits ...
2023,
| Matthias Lühr
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How do increasing economic risk cleavages amongst natives shape growing negativity towards immigration? Group conflict theory suggests that tension between immigrant and native groups arises as a reaction to the actual or perceived loss of economic privilege by the majority group members. Yet, such an economically rooted formation of sentiments towards immigration is widely debated. This article aims ...
In:
Migration Studies
(online first) (2024),
| Elif Naz Kayran