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This article examines whether social investment (SI) stock (education), flow (family support), and buffer (safety net) policy functions reduce poverty risk across age groups and family types. To contribute to the discussion on SI’s capability to promote the livelihoods of the vulnerable groups in society, this research focuses on the poverty risk of young adults and single mothers in the twenty-first-century ...
In:
Social Policy and Society
(2026), 1–16
| Heta Pöyliö
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This paper examines the effects of voluntary, non-formal adult education on political attitudes, participation, and partisanship, exploiting the expansion of courses at East German Volkshochschulen (VHS) after reunification. Combining administrative VHS data with individual survey data and federal election results, we use quasi-random variation in local course availability to identify causal effects ...
2026,
(IZA Discussion Paper No. 18729)
| Li Kathrin Kaja Rupieper, Stephan L. Thomsen
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An influential survey by Joshua Knobe (2003) indicates that the cognitive process ascribing intentionality to an agent is mediated by the perceived moral worth of the action. To assess the external validity of the finding and to obtain more precise estimates of effect sizes, the present study replicates this canonical experiment with a large scale random sample of the German population (N?=?2,295). ...
In:
Philosophical Psychology
(2026), 1–33
| Christoph Schmidt-Petri, Daniel Labarca-Pinto, Carsten Schröder
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Objective To examine young adult women's and men's time use for routine housework when moving out of the parental household. Background From a life-course perspective, establishing an own household is one of the key markers of the transition to adulthood. Leaving home is associated with new responsibilities concerning the organization of everyday life, including routine housework, and provides ...
In:
Journal of Marriage and Family
87 (2025), 2, 547–565
| Florian Schulz, Marcel Raab
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One reason gender earning gaps persist is that well-paid jobs presume long work hours, and these are incompatible with family care. Long hours also harm health, and the risks may increase for workers with care and domestic workloads, adding a gendered health penalty. Using representative, longitudinal data from Australia and Germany (144,430–153,659 observations for HILDA and SOEP surveys, respectively, ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
182 (2026), 1, 7
| Lyndall Strazdins, Tinh Doan, Liana Leach, Jianghong Li, Matthias Pollmann-Schult, Till Kaiser
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Pursuing replicability — independent evidence for previous claims — is important for creating generalizable knowledge1,2. Here we attempted replications of 274 claims of positive results from 164 quantitative papers published from 2009 to 2018 in 54 journals in the social and behavioural sciences. Replications were high powered on average to detect the original effect size (median of 99.6%), used original ...
In:
Nature
652 (2026), 8108, 143–150
| Andrew H. Tyner, Anna Lou Abatayo, Mason Daley, Samuel Field, Nicholas Fox, et al.
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Automation transforms work at a rapid pace, with gradually increasing shares of the workforce at risk of being replaced by machines. However, little is known about how this risk is affecting workers. In this study, we examine the relationship between exposure to high automation risk at work and both subjective (self-reported health, anxiety, and health satisfaction) and objective (healthcare use and ...
In:
Industrial Relations Journal
(online first) (2026),
| Mariia Vasiakina, Christian Dudel
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Beginnend mit dem Erhebungsjahr 2005 bis zum Erhebungsjahr 2023 veröffentlicht die amtliche Statistik Armutsrisikoquoten für die Gesamtbevölkerung und für ausgewählte Subpopulationen auf Basis von Mikrozensus-Daten. Im Vergleich zu anderen Datenquellen hat der Mikrozensus aufgrund der sehr großen Stichprobe Vorteile für die Armutsschätzung auf regionaler Ebene wie auch für kleinere Bevölkerungsgruppen. ...
Köln:
GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften,
2026,
(GESIS Papers, 2026/02)
| Heike Wirth, Bernhard Schimpl-Neimanns
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This study investigates whether having daughters impacts political preferences and whether this effect varies across European countries. We estimate effect sizes for 39 countries in the European Social Survey (n = 156,236) and aggregate estimates using random-effects meta-analysis, following a preregistered analysis plan. We find significant evidence that having daughters increases the preference for ...
In:
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
248 (2026),
| Yifan Yang, Magnus Johannesson, Anna Dreber, Frank Fossen, Levent Neyse, Felix Holzmeister
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Since its first round, the European Social Survey (ESS) has included a 21-item measure of ten basic human values shared across cultures, known as the Human Values Scale (HVS), developed by Shalom H. Schwartz. Recently, the scale has been revised to a new 20-item HVS with shorter, simpler items (usually only one sentence instead of two sentences per item in the past version) and introducing a single ...
In:
Survey Practice
18 (2025),
| Elena Sommer, Brita Dorer, Ulrike Efu Nkong, Tim Hanson, Sabine Zinn, Shalom H Schwartz