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Diskussionspapiere 836 / 2008
We provide the first joint evidence on the relationship between individuals' cognitive abilities, their personality and earnings for Germany. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, we employ scores from an ultra-short IQ-test and a set of measures of personality traits, namely locus of control, reciprocity and all basic items from the Five Factor Personality Inventory. Our estimates ...
2008| Guido Heineck, Silke Anger
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SOEPpapers 807 / 2015
This study examined the long-standing question of whether a person’s position among siblings has a lasting impact on that person’s life course. Empirical research on the relation between birth order and intelligence has convincingly documented that performances on psychometric intelligence tests decline slightly from firstborns to laterborns. By contrast, the search for birth-order effects on personality ...
2015| Julia M. Rohrer, Boris Egloff, Stefan C. Schmukle
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Seminar
mit Kommentar von Dr. Wiebke Schulz (DIW Berlin)
Anmeldung bis 29.06.2015 unter Bien-edu@diw.de
02.07.2015| Prof W. Steven Barnett, PhD
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Diskussionspapiere 684 / 2007
This paper empirically analyzes whether the character-based approach, which is based on the personality structure and the human capital of business founders, allows prediction of entrepreneurial success. A unique data set is used consisting of 414 previously unemployed persons whose personal characteristics were screened by different methods, namely a one-day assessment center (AC) and a standardized ...
2007| Marco Caliendo, Alexander S. Kritikos
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SOEPpapers 862 / 2016
Many studies have shown that in recent years, the fear of falling has increased in the German middle class. In this paper, it will be investigated how these worries have developed over an extended period of 30 years. A longitudinal analysis will be carried out using data gathered from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) between the years 1984 and 2014. We analyse fears of job loss indicating the ...
2016| Holger Lengfeld, Jessica Ordemann
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
Financial literacy predicts informed financial decisions, but what explains financial literacy? We use the concept of financial socialization and aim to represent three major agents of financial socialization: family, school and work. Thus we compile twelve relevant childhood characteristics in a new survey study and examine their relation to financial literacy, while controlling for established socio-demographic ...
In:
Journal of Economic Psychology
51 (2015), S. 114-133
| Antonia Grohmann, Roy Kouwenberg, Lukas Menkhoff
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Sonstige Publikationen des DIW / Aufsätze 2018
Towards the very end of this legislative period, a cross-caucus parliamentary majority gave same-sex marriage the green light – progress for the legal equality of homosexuals in Germany. This report focuses on the life situations of homosexual and bisexual people in Germany. The careers they pursue, for example, differ from those of heterosexuals. Hourly wages are an area of significant disparity: ...
2018| Martin Kroh, Simon Kühne, Christian Kipp, David Richter
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DIW Economic Bulletin 33/34/35 / 2017
Towards the very end of this legislative period, a cross-caucus parliamentary majority gave same-sex marriage the green light – progress for the legal equality of homosexuals in Germany. This report focuses on the life situations of homosexual and bisexual people in Germany. The careers they pursue, for example, differ from those of heterosexuals. Hourly wages are an area of significant disparity: ...
2017| Martin Kroh, Simon Kühne, Christian Kipp, David Richter
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DIW Wochenbericht 35 / 2017
Mit der Öffnung der Ehe für alle, die zum Ende der derzeitigen Legislaturperiode eine fraktionsübergreifende parlamentarische Mehrheit fand, schreitet die rechtliche Gleichstellung Homosexueller in Deutschland voran. Dieser Bericht befasst sich mit den Lebenslagen homo- und bisexueller Menschen in Deutschland, die sich zum Beispiel hinsichtlich ausgeübter Berufe von Heterosexuellen unterscheiden. Ein ...
2017| Martin Kroh, Simon Kühne, Christian Kipp, David Richter
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Veranstaltung
Leibniz ScienceCampusBerlin Centre for Consumer Policies (BCCP) Forum
The Forum will bring together all BCCP fellows in law and economics who are engaged in the activities of the science campus. We will have the opportunity to learn about each other’s research during short presentations by the different partner institutions followed by open discussion. The objective of the meeting is to...
08.04.2019