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In times of crises, democracies face the challenge of balancing effective interventions with civil liberties. This study examines German states’ responses during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on the trade-off between civil liberties and public health. Using state-level variation in mobility restrictions, we employ a difference-in-differences design to show that stay-at-home orders ...
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European Journal of Political Economy
85 (2024), December 2024, 102593
| Daniel Graeber, Lorenz Meister, Panu Poutvaara
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Critical theories of education and the dynamics of skill formation model predict that the education system reproduces socioeconomic inequalities in educational attainment. Previous empirical studies comparing changes in socioeconomic inequalities in academic performance over the summer to changes in these inequalities during the school year have argued, however, that schooling reduces inequalities ...
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Sociological Science
10 (2023), 880-902
| Michael Grätz
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The diverging destinies hypothesis predicts that educational inequality increases in contemporary societies because parents with higher levels of education postpone the birth of their children. This hypothesis is supported by empirical evidence demonstrating that advanced parental ages improve children?s educational outcomes. However, the consequences of socioeconomic differences in parental ages for ...
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European Societies
26 (2024), 5, 1444-1471
| Michael Grätz, Øyvind N. Wiborg
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Montags oder freitags frei oder nur vier Stunden am Tag arbeiten: Für die einen ist es Wunsch, für die anderen Wirklichkeit. Der Anteil derer, die einer Teilzeittätigkeit nachgehen, unterscheidet sich regional oft deutlich. Auffällig sind die Zahlen aus Berlin und Brandenburg.
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rbb24, 2023-04-20
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| Götz Gringmuth-Dallmer
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Germany played a key role as receiving country during the so-called refugee and displacement crisis with about 5 million asylum seekers arriving in the EU between 2014 and 2020. It is well known that asylum seekers and refugees (ASRs) have a high burden of disease and are particularly prone to mental disorders such as trauma, stress-related and affective disorders. Not much is known about the determinants ...
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BMC Public Health
24 (2024), 1, 1965
| Thomas Grochtdreis, Hans-Helmut König, Judith Dams
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It is known that the health-care service utilization in primary care of persons with a direct migration background is lower compared to non-migrants. However, potential migration-related determinants of health-care service utilization are not known. Therefore, this study aimed to analyze the associations between health-care service utilization and migration-related characteristics of persons with a ...
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The European Journal of Health Economics
26 (2025), 2, 313–323
| Thomas Grochtdreis, Hans-Helmut König, Judith Dams
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At what ages are young people most open to political influence? We test the “formative years” model that underscores the importance of childhood experiences for political development against the “impressionable years” model that asserts the primacy of lessons learned during adolescence. To assess the relative merits of these competing models, we develop a new analytical strategy: the Retrospective ...
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Youth & Society
55 (2023), 1, 44-60
| Pavel Bacovsky, Jennifer Fitzgerald
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This study analyzes the causal effect of an increase in the retirement age on official health diagnoses. We exploit a sizable cohort-specific pension reform for women using a Difference-in-Differences approach. The analysis is based on official records covering all individuals insured by the public health system in Germany and including all certified diagnoses by practitioners. This enables us to gain ...
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The Journal of the Economics of Ageing
23 (2022), 100403
| Mara Barschkett, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Anna Hammerschmid
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This study constructs a comprehensive wealth distribution for Germany to inform debate in Germany and internationally on the distribution of wealth including pension entitlements. We estimate the net present value of pension wealth in Germany in 2012 and 2017 using Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data. When including pension wealth, German households’ wealth-income ratio increases from 570% to 850% in ...
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Economics Letters
231 (2023), 111299
| Charlotte Bartels, Timm Bönke, Rick Glaubitz, Markus M. Grabka, Carsten Schröder
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We compute participation tax rates across the EU and find that work disincentives inherent in tax–benefit systems largely depend on household composition and the individual’s earner role within the household. We then estimate participation elasticities using an IV group estimator that enables us to investigate the responsiveness of individuals to work incentives. We contribute to the literature on ...
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International Tax and Public Finance
30 (2023), 1, 167-214
| Charlotte Bartels, Cortnie Shupe