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Frequent social contact has been associated with better health and longer life. It remains unclear though whether there is an optimal contact frequency, beyond which contact is no longer positively associated with health and longevity. The present research explored this question by examining nonlinear associations of social contact frequency with health and longevity. Study 1 (N ∼ 350,000) demonstrated ...
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Social Psychological and Personality Science
12 (2021), 6, 1058-1070
| Olga Stavrova, Dongning Ren
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In this article, we examine whether and how the institutional context matters when understanding individuals’ giving to philanthropic organizations. We posit that both the individuals’ propensity to give and the amounts given are higher in countries with a stronger institutional context for philanthropy. We examine key factors of formal and informal institutional contexts for philanthropy at both the ...
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Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
50 (2021), 4, 697-728
| Pamala Wiepking, Femida Handy, Sohyun Park, Michaela Neumayr, René Bekkers, et al.
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In the fight against climate change, renewable energy has been subsidised in many countries. With the costs passed onto consumers, governments are paying those, for example, who instal domestic solar panels on top of their homes and feed electricity back into the system at preferential rates. We know that substantial amounts of income flow into households with solar installations as a result, but we ...
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Political Studies Review
20 (2022), 3, 525-533
| Resul Umit
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Researchers attempting to survey refugees over time face methodological issues because of the transient nature of the target population. In this article, we examine whether applying smartphone technology could alleviate these issues. We interviewed 529 refugees and afterward invited them to four follow-up mobile web surveys and to install a research app for passive mobile data collection. Our main ...
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Sociological Methods & Research
50 (2021), 4, 1863-1894
| Florian Keusch, Mariel M. Leonard, Christoph Sajons, Susan Steiner
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Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, the study examines whether the impact of unemployment on the risk of becoming socially isolated is different for women and men and whether it can be traced back to financial straits. An isolating effect of unemployment is found only with regard to men, to long-term unemployment, and to social isolation in terms of scarce contact to friends ...
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Work, Employment and Society
36 (2022), 1, 3-20
| Jan Eckhard
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Previous research shows that men’s and women’s employment situations can affect the stability of marital unions, but results differ by country context and different measurements. This study models the effect of spouses’ employment situations on the risk of divorce. It focuses on time aspects and financial aspects, resulting from the employment situation of married spouses in Germany. A broad variety ...
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Journal of Family Issues
43 (2022), 2, 534-562
| Lisa Schmid
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This study tests whether being in an exogamous union affects older individual's family networks, and whether associations between exogamy and mental health reported in previous studies operate through changes in family ties and differ by gender. We focus on individuals aged 60 or above in the German Socio-Economic Panel Study between 2002 and 2016. We describe demographic and family characteristics ...
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Population, Space and Place
27 (2021), 6, e2437
| Peter Eibich, Chia Liu
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Previous work has shown that preferences are not always stable across time, but surprisingly little is known about the reasons for this instability. I examine whether variation in people's emotions over time predicts changes in risk attitudes. Using a large-panel dataset, I identify happiness, anger, and fear as significant correlates of within-person changes in risk attitudes. Robustness checks ...
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American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
14 (2022), 3, 527-558
| Armando N. Meier
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Über die Ausgestaltung des deutschen Steuer- und Transfersystems wird im Zusammenhang mit der Bundestagswahl neuerlich kontrovers diskutiert. Die Autoren greifen zentrale Aspekte der öffentlichen Diskussion über die steuerliche Behandlung niedriger, mittlerer und hoher Einkommen auf und analysieren diese aus wohlfahrts- und politökonomischer Perspektive. In ihrer Analyse verbinden sie Methoden der ...
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Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik
22 (2021), 3, 191-202
| Andreas Peichl, Felix Bierbrauer, Dominik Sachs, Daniel Weishaar
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Social inequalities constitute one of the largest research fields of sociology in the German-speaking countries. This field has been successfully institutionalized and internationalized in recent decades. Today, it rests on a rich data infrastructure and a large body of cumulative research. The article traces this advancement in terms of shifting theoretical paradigms, methodological innovations, and ...
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Betina Hollstein, Rainer Greshoff, Uwe Schimank, Anja Weiß ,
Soziologie - Sociology in the German-Speaking World: Special Issue Soziologische Revue 2020
Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
361-380
| Gunnar Otte, Mara Boehle, Katharina Kunißen