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Wealth and Its Distribution in Germany, 1895-2018

German history over the past 125 years has been turbulent. Marked by two world wars, revolutions and major regime changes, as well as a hyperinflation and three currency reforms, expropriations and territorial divisions, it provides unique insights into the role of country-specific shocks in shaping long-run wealth dynamics. This paper presents the first comprehensive study of wealth and its distribution ...

Three Essays on the Economics of Education and Inequality

Zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement (Kap. 11.4)

Trends in self-rated health among the elderly population in Germany from 1995 to 2015 – the influence of temporal change in leisure time physical activity

Background: Against the backdrop of rising statutory retirement age in Germany, we analyzed time trends in self-rated health (SRH) among the elderly population between 50 and 70 years of age and explored the mediating role of leisure time physical activity (LTPA) on the relationship between time period and self-rated health (SRH). Methods: We used longitudinal survey data (n = 23,161) from a national ...

Opportunities and Constraints of the Partner Market and Educational Assortative Mating

This study aims to determine to what extent the opportunities and restrictions of the partner market influence educational assortative mating. It also analyzes the interplay between the opportunity structure and preferences. Matching district-based partner market indicators to heterosexual couples when they move in together based on the German Socio-Economic Panel, we find strong effects of the opportunity ...

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Taking social policy personally: How does neuroticism affect welfare state attitudes?

Abstract The role of the “Big Five” personality traits in driving welfare state attitudes has received scant attention in social policy research. Yet neuroticism in particular—a disposition to stress, worry, and get nervous easily—is theoretically likely to be an important driver of welfare attitudes precisely because welfare states deliver social “security” and “safety” nets. Using cross-sectional ...

My Gain or Your Loss? Changes in within-Couple Relative Wealth and Partners’ Life Satisfaction

This article studies the relationship between partner’s wealth share and their life satisfaction in different-sex couples using the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (2002, 2007, 2012, and 2017). Resource-based theories and gender ideology are two prominent approaches to explain the effects of within-couple relative resources on various outcomes. Recently, scholars have argued that not relative but ...

Analyse comparée des parcours scolaires de descendants d’immigrés en France et en Allemagne

Studies on educational inequality between children of immigrants and children of natives in France and Germany focus mainly on inequality in achievement or transition within the school system. This contribution focuses on the school trajectories of immigrants of Turkish origin in Germany and North African origin in France. Using panel data from each country, we use the sequence analysis method to identify ...

Paare in der Pandemie: Diesen Einfluss haben Corona, Geld und Psyche auf Beziehungen (Interview mit Christian Bünnings)

Viele Beziehungen werden während der Coronakrise auf die Probe gestellt. Gesundheitsökonom Christian Bünnings hat untersucht, wie sich psychische oder körperliche Leiden auf eine Partnerschaft auswirken – und welche Rolle Geld bei Trennungen spielt.