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  • DIW Applied Micro Seminar

    The Gender Gap in Student Performance: The Role of the Testing Environment

    Abstract:   Our research question is to what extent does the familiarity with the testing environment impact the relative performance of boys and girls in standardized testing. We use an RCT-design on the full population of students in Grade 6 and 10 across several subjects in the Region of Madrid (Spain). This standardized test was either "Externally" administered, meaning that teachers...

    09.10.2020| Almudena Sevilla, University College London
  • SOEP Brown Bag Seminar

    Prosociality and Risk Preferences in the Financial Sector

    Using large-scale data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this paper finds that financial professionals have a lower prosociality and riskier behavior than a control group. I interpret these findings using the person-organization fit theory, and thus, the compatibility between the employee's personality and the prevailing culture in their organization....

    12.02.2020| Max Deter, University of Wuppertal
  • SOEP Brown Bag Seminar

    Temporary employment and the midlife nadir in human well-being

    Temporary employees rank lower than permanent employees on various measures of mental and physical health, including well-being. Furthermore, much research has indicated an approximate U-shape pattern between age and well-being with a nadir in midlife. Temporary employment may well have different associations with well-being across the lifespan, likely harming people in midlife more than...

    03.06.2020| Alan Piper, FU Berlin and Europa-Universität Flensburg
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Trajectories of Multiple Subjective Well-Being Facets Across Old Age: The Role of Health and Personality

    Subjective well-being is often characterized by average stability across old age, but individual differencesare substantial and not yet fully understood. This study targets physical and cognitive health andpersonality as individual difference characteristics and examines their unique and interactive roles forlevel and change in a number of different facets of subjective well-being. We make use of medicaldiagnoses, ...

    In: Psychology and Aging 35 (2020), 6, S. 894-909 | Sophie Potter, Johanna Drewelies, Jenny Wagner, Sandra Duezel, Annette Brose, Ilja Demuth, Elisabeth Steinhagen-Thiessen, Ulman Lindenberger, Gert G. Wagner, Denis Gerstorf
  • SOEPpapers 1075 / 2020

    Prosociality and Risk Preferences in the Financial Sector

    Using large-scale data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this paper finds that financial professionals have a lower prosociality and riskier behavior than a control group. I interpret these findings using the person-organization fit theory, and thus, the compatibility between the employee’s personality and the prevailing culture in their organization. The financial sector attracts riskier individuals, ...

    2020| Max Deter
  • Berlin Applied Micro Seminar (BAMS)

    The Value of Time in the United States: Estimates from Nationwide Natural Field Experiments

    07.06.2021| Robert Metcalfe (University of Southern California)
  • SOEP Brown Bag Seminar

    Irrational Attention to Correlation in Selected Data

    It is very rare that the causal link between actions and outcomes can be observed directly. Often, it is much easier to observe correlation. To derive causality from correlation, economists use elaborate techniques. However, little is known about individuals’ capabilities to infer from correlational data in their everyday lives. I test if individuals erroneously infer...

    09.12.2020| Annekatrin Schrenker
  • SOEPpapers 1078 / 2020

    Gender-Specific Personality Traits and Their Effects on the Gender Wage Gap: A Correlated Random Effects Approach using SOEP Data

    Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this article examines whether gender wage differentials occur due to differences in prototypical personality traits of women and men and provides the first application of a gender wage gap decomposition on the basis of a correlated random effects model. Main results show that agreeableness and openness are the most important personality ...

    2020| Sina Otten
  • Berlin Applied Micro Seminar (BAMS)

    Childless Cities

    Unfortunately the event is canceled. As soon as a new date is fixed, it will be announced here on the website. BAMS is a joint seminar by the DIW Berlin, the Hertie School of Governance, the HU Berlin and the WZB.

    16.03.2020| Florian Oswald
  • SOEPpapers 1071 / 2020

    Income Distribution and the Fear of Crime: Evidence from Germany

    We here explore the link between individual concerns about crime and the distribution of income in Germany. We make use of 1995-2017 microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to show that both individual polarization and relative deprivation have statistically-significant effects on reported concerns about crime, while relative satisfaction plays no role. At the aggregate level, the main ...

    2020| Michelle Acampora, Conchita D'Ambrosio, Markus M. Grabka
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