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Mental health disorders are among the leading causes of disease burden worldwide. Recently, attention has been drawn to the Internet and social media as determinants of the increase in mental health conditions in recent years. In this paper, I analyze the causal effect of broadband Internet access on the mental health of adults. I leverage confidential information on the coordinates of respondents ...
In:
Health Economics
31 (2022), S2, 6-21
| Marta Golin
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Previous studies have shown that worries about economic situation and job security are associated with childbearing, but evidence is scarce whether worries about other life domains are also related to having children. Drawing on the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), we examined whether worries about different life domains were associated with the likelihood of having children in the total and ...
2023,
(SocArXiv Papers)
| Kateryna Golovina, Markus Jokela
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Even though the COVID-19 pandemic had consequences for the whole society, like during most crises, some population groups tended to be disproportionally affected. We rely on the most recent data from the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees to explore the resilience or vulnerability of refugees in the face of the pandemic. As the 2020 wave of the survey was in the field when the second nationwide lockdown ...
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
19 (2022), 12, 7409
| Laura Goßner, Yuliya Kosyakova, Marie-Christine Laible
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Besonders zur Weihnachtszeit fühlen sich viele Menschen einsam. Doch dieses Gefühl hat nicht nur Auswirkungen auf die seelische Verfassung, sondern wirkt sich auch auf das Herz aus.
In:
Stern online, 2022-12-22
(2022),
| Rebecca Häfner
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Under which conditions does populist success propagate far-right extremism? This paper examines how an information shock about the acceptance of xenophobic positions spurs an increase in far-right protests in more liberal areas in Germany. Using staggered state elections between 2014 and 2017 as a quasi-natural experiment and leveraging novel data, I show that far-right protests are unleashed in more ...
In:
European Journal of Political Economy
72 (2022), March 2022, 102116
| Felix Hagemeister
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This article explores the relationship between foreign language skills and individuals’ labor income in Germany, focusing on the English language. Using the 2012 and 2016 sample of the German Socio-Economic Panel’s Innovation Sample (GSOEP-IS), we find that native speakers of German with English language skills earn a wage premium of 13 percent, on average. Incremental improvements in the level of ...
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Labour Economics
76 (2022), June 2022, 102150
| Sabrina Hahm, Michele Gazzola
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By the end of the Second World War, an estimated 20 percent of the West German housing stock had been destroyed. Building on a theoretical lifecycle model of wealth accumulation, this paper examines the extent to which regional differences in destruction can explain differences in wealth today” – at the beginning of the 21st century. As our empirical basis, we link a unique historical dataset on the ...
In:
Journal of Economic Growth
30 (2025), 161-235
| Christoph Halbmeier, Carsten Schröder
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In this study, we investigate the determinants of social integration of Syrian refugees and the impact of social integration on refugees’ decision to stay in Germany, using the 2016 IAB-BAMF-SOEP Refugee Survey. Our econometric strategy is based on the estimation of a simultaneous equation model for social integration, economic integration, and the decision to stay, handling endogeneity issues through ...
In:
Journal of Population Economics
36 (2023), 581-607
| Cyrine Hannafi, Mohamed Ali Marouani
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Expanding on a new body of literature on cultural self-selection, the present study investigates how refugees who arrived in Germany since 2013 relate to the general population of their countries of origin in terms of liberal democratic values. The cultural self-selection literature suggests that more liberal individuals may be more likely to flee to Germany. To trace cultural self-selection amongst ...
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Journal of Refugee Studies
36 (2022), 1, 128-155
| Lukas M. Fuchs
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This article expands on the discussion of social and cultural factors for refugees’ feelings of belonging in the receiving society and assesses democratic, civic, and moral values as predictors of belonging. On the one hand, existing research considers shared values between refugees and the receiving society as hallmarks of integration. From this perspective, shared values (or value consensus) are ...
In:
International Migration Review
57 (2023), 3, 948-978
| Lukas M. Fuchs, Christian von Scheve