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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
This study explores the responsiveness of climate policy preferences and individual behaviors to variations in beliefs about climate change impacts. Using an information provision experiment embedded within the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we analyze how updated beliefs influence pro-environmental engagement and whether these effects persist over time. By linking experimental data with rich...
22.01.2025| Sven Hartmann, Trier University
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SOEPpapers 1211 / 2024
In this project, we analyze whether the arts can mitigate negative impacts of social distancing and isolation on mental health and wellbeing, ease the burden of closed day-care and school facilities on families, and preserve attitudes of solidarity and trust. Using the SOEP-CoV questionnaire, we examine whether experience with music enabled individuals and households to handle social isolation and ...
2024| Martina Metzger, Hans Walter Steinhauer, Jennifer Pédussel Wu
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
An influential body of economic literature has consistently shown strong associations between cognitive abilities and economic preferences. However, much of this research has overlooked the potential endogeneity of cognitive abilities - an oversight given that these abilities stem from a series of investment decisions influenced by factors likely correlated with economic preferences. To address...
20.11.2024| Daniel Graeber
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
The seminar will share two connected papers, one newer, and in more need of feedback, than the other. The premise of both is the received wisdom that income rank matters for welfare, in particular life satisfaction. In most discussions, however, income comparisons are limited to the national population and evidence is correlational. In the first paper, we report on an experiment that randomized...
11.07.2024| Peter H. Matthews (Middlebury College and Aalto University)
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Infographic
29.01.2025
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of heat events. Understanding the impact of heat exposure is crucial due to its wide-ranging economic and social consequences, including increased energy demand, healthcare costs, reduced labor productivity, and exacerbation of social inequities in urban areas. In this context, the project's objective is to investigate the impact of heat...
18.06.2025| Katharina Kolb, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
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Refereed essays Web of Science
In:
European Journal of Personality
(2025), im Ersch. [online first: 2025]
| Urmimala Ghose, Michael D. Krämer, David Richter, Gert G. Wagner, Frank J. Infurna, Nilam Ram, Denis Gerstorf
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Fierce debate over the feasibility of cardinally measuring utility – or ‘wellbeing’ – with surveys has recently resurfaced. Several prominent papers claimed that when interpreting survey data as strictly ordinal, most of the literature’s results are easily reversed. We systematically assess this claim. To do so, we replicate the universe of wellbeing research published in top economics journals...
05.06.2024| Anthony Lepinteur, University of Luxembourg
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Background Experiencing the onset of a chronic disease is a serious health event impacting living conditions and wellbeing. Investigating wellbeing development and its predictors is crucial to understand how individuals adapt to chronic illnesses. This study (i) analyzed the impact of a chronic disease on wellbeing development, and (ii) explored spatial healthcare access as potential moderating factor. ...
In:
European Journal of Public Health
34 (2024), 1, S. 29-34
| Barbara Stacherl, Odile Sauzet
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Refereed essays Web of Science
The current study tested whether the reported lower wellbeing of parents after preterm birth, relative to term birth, is a continuation of a pre-existing difference before pregnancy. Parents from Germany (the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, N = 10,649) and the United Kingdom (British Household Panel Study and Understanding Society, N = 11,012) reported their new-born’s birthweight and gestational ...
In:
Scientific Reports
13 (2023), 21233, 10 S.
| Robert Eves, Nicole Baumann, Ayten Bilgin, Daniel Schnitzlein, David Richter, Dieter Wolke, Sakari Lemola