Economic and social transformation of China during the past 40 years is without precedent in human history. While the economic transformation was extensively studied, social transformation was not. In this paper, we use for the first time harmonized ...
In this research we investigate the psychological determinants of resilience. Specifically, we observe whether the adaptation process to negative life events is different across the distribution of personality traits (the so-called big five) ...
This paper studies self-control in a nationally representative sample. Using the well-established Tangney scale to measure trait self-control, we find that people’s age as well as the political and economic institutions they are exposed to have an ...
Over the last decade, there has been a growing interest in the association between 2D:4D, a putative marker for prenatal testosterone exposure, and economic preferences. The results are mixed, and part of the inconclusiveness may come from the ...
In light of the recent worldwide migration of refugees, determinants of a more or less successful integration are heavily discussed, but reliable empirical investigations are scarce and have often focused on sociodemographic factors. In the present .
Es wird mehr und mehr klar, dass die subjektive Wahrnehmung und Bewertung objektiver Ungleichheiten als 'gerecht' oder 'ungerecht' eine Schlüsselrolle für ihre Reproduktion und Auswirkungen spielen. Das LINOS-Projekt unter Leitung ...
It is becoming increasingly clear that the subjective perception and evaluation of objective inequalities as 'just' or 'unjust'play a key role in their reproduction and consequences. The LINOS project headed by Stefan Liebig examines how ...
Prof. Dr. Gert G. Wagner, langjähriger ehemaliger Vorstand des DIW Berlin, erhielt für sein anhaltendes ehrenamtliches Engagement in der Vermittlung wissenschaftlicher Expertise in Politik und Gesellschaft vom Bundespräsidenten das ...
Herr Bach, Sie haben den Einfluss der Klassengröße auf die Leistungen von Schülerinnen und Schülern untersucht. Eigentlich müsste doch Wissen in kleineren Klassen besser zu vermitteln sein? Ja, das haben wir auch vermutet. ...
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