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Climate change poses an intertemporal and intergenerational dilemma: the costs of mitigation are often borne today but benefit future generations, potentially creating intergenerational conflicts and challenging climate policies. Conversely, delaying or insufficient climate action shifts substantial economic, social, and environmental burdens into the future, where costs are expected to increase dramatically. ...
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Population and Environment
48 (2026), 4, 24
| Valeria Bordone, Tobias Wiß, Gerrit Bauer, Marta Moroni
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Objective To investigate the impact of various parental health shocks, including parental death, on young adults' life satisfaction and mental health, personality traits, as well as NEET status (i.e., being neither in employment, education, nor training). Background Theoretical considerations and previous cross-sectional studies suggest that parental health problems negatively affect child outcomes ...
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Journal of Marriage and Family
88 (2026), 1, 247–257
| Alessandro Ferrara, Jan P. Heisig, Jonas Radl, Alena Scheinert
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This study explores how volunteering buffers the association between negative life events and life satisfaction using data from two longitudinal surveys: HILDA (30,693 participants, one-year intervals) and SOEP (60,701 participants, two-year intervals). We applied multiple-group random intercept cross-lagged panel models to examine how volunteering moderates the effects between dependent negative life ...
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Personality and Individual Differences
250 (2026),
| Daniel Groß, Jasmin Haffa
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Leadership and risk-taking are often assumed to be interrelated, but this assumption has rarely been investigated empirically in humans or other species. Analyzing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and observer reports from two African chimpanzee sanctuaries, this study finds that risk preferences are positively associated with leadership status in humans and with hierarchical rank in ...
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The Leadership Quarterly
37 (2026), 6, 101992
| Lou M. Haux, Kamil Fulawka, Gert G. Wagner, Ralph Hertwig, Esther Herrmann
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Researchers have long argued that unemployment affects the mental health of both, individuals and their partners, but findings remain inconsistent. Evidence on job insecurity is even scarcer, despite its widespread occurrence. This study tracks shifts in mental health related to unemployment and job insecurity in couples, testing for gender and educational differences. We analyzed data from the German ...
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Advances in Life Course Research
69 (2026), 100753
| Malgorzata Mikucka, Oliver Arránz Becker, Christof Wolf
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Although cultural identity—a bidimensional construct comprised of identification with one’s culture of origin (ethnic identity) and country of residence (national identity)—is an important aspect of identity, little is known about its development during adulthood, the longitudinal relationship between the two dimensions, and the factors that influence their development. As maintaining a sense of sameness ...
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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
131 (2026), 2, 337–354
| Ronja A. Runge, Débora B. Maehler
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We study intragenerational wealth rank mobility, investigating three dimensions: (i) wealth mobility over the life cycle, (ii) heterogeneity in mobility among subgroups and wealth components, and (iii) commonalities and differences across divergent country contexts. We use data from Germany (SOEP, N= 12,380 individuals), Norway (administrative register data, N=3,460,602), and Britain (BHPS, N=7,910; ...
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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
(2026), 101206
| Daniel D. Schnitzlein, Philipp M. Lersch, Øyvind N. Wiborg
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Research on the subjective well-being of irregular migrants remains scarce. This paper examines the consequences of asylum application rejections for life satisfaction. It develops a theoretical framework based on the Theory of Social Production Functions, from which specific hypotheses are derived to explain why and how the life satisfaction of rejected asylum seekers is lower than that of individuals ...
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Social Indicators Research
184 (2026), 2, 33
| Randy Stache
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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, ...
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Social Indicators Research
182 (2026), 1, 7
| Lyndall Strazdins, Tinh Doan, Liana Leach, Jianghong Li, Matthias Pollmann-Schult, Till Kaiser
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Geflüchtete haben nach ihrer Ankunft in Deutschland oft einen erhöhten medizinischen Versorgungsbedarf. Beim Zugang zur Gesundheitsversorgung sind sie jedoch mit verschiedenen Hürden konfrontiert. Auswertungen der IAB-BAMF-SOEP-Befragung von Geflüchteten für die Jahre 2023 und 2024 zeigen, dass wahrgenommene Wartezeiten, große Entfernungen und finanzielle Hürden die bedarfsgerechte Versorgung in den ...
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DIW Wochenbericht
22 (2026), 331–337
| Louise Biddle, Andrea Marchitto, Elena Sommer