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In recent decades, both mean dwelling sizes and per-capita living space have significantly increased worldwide. With dwelling size being the main determinant of private households? residential energy demand, these increases are major drivers of residential energy consumption. This article quantitatively analyses housing consumption in order to gain a better understanding of the factors behind risen ...
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Housing Studies
(online first) (2025), 1–27
| Simon Hein, Tobias Kuhnimhof
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Do border closures affect political attitudes? While a large body of research has discussed the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on nationalism and outgroup hostility, much less is known about how one of the main policy responses to stop the virus, closing the national borders, has impacted political attitudes. We argue that the sudden and unprecedented closures of national borders in the COVID-19 ...
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European Journal of Political Research
64 (2025), 4, 1923–1944
| Lisa Herbig, Asli Unan, Theresa Kuhn, Irene Rodríguez, Toni Rodon, Heike Klüver
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The average gender pay gap in Germany is 16 percent according to the most recent data. On the occasion of the 2025 Equal Pay Day, this Weekly Report using Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data shows that considerable differences according to age and level of education are hiding behind this average gap. For example, the gender pay gap increases significantly with age for people of all educational backgrounds ...
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DIW Weekly Report
15 (2025), 18/19, 109-115
| Fiona Herrmann, Katharina Wrohlich
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Amid rising concerns about climate change, in recent years, demographers have increasingly examined whether environmental concerns have become a factor in shaping reproductive intentions and outcomes. However, little is still known about the potentially reciprocal relationship between environmental concerns and fertility, in part due to the lack of longitudinal analyses of sufficient temporal scope. ...
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Population and Environment
47 (2025), 3, 31
| Steffen Peters, Erich Striessnig, Alessandra Trimarchi, Maria Rita Testa, Natalie Nitsche
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A prerequisite for sustainable mobility is the move away from fossil fuels. In addition to the transportation sector and public transport, the electrification of individual transport also contributes to the mobility transition. In the present study, we conducted exploratory structural equation modelling using data (n = 14,008) from a large-scale nationwide household panel in Germany to investigate ...
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Transport Policy
162 (2025), 188–199
| Stefan Poier, Anna Maria Nikodemska-Wołowik, Michał Suchanek
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Trotz aktueller Krisen bleibt das subjektive Wohlbefinden der Deutschen insgesamt hoch und erreicht gegenwärtig historische Höchstwerte wie in den 2010er Jahren. Besonders zufrieden sind junge Erwachsene und Menschen im Ruhestand, während die Lebenszufriedenheit im mittleren Alter tendenziell abnimmt – ein typischer „U-Verlauf“. Zu den zentralen Einflussfaktoren auf die Lebenszufriedenheit gehören ...
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IW-Trends
52 (2025), 4,
| Jennifer Potthoff, Rebecca Gabel
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Sampling remains a major challenge when researching minority populations, especially in cross-national settings. While various sampling methods are established in the field, most of them cannot easily be implemented globally. However, worldwide operating Social Networking Sites provide an opportunity for the recruitment of certain hard-to-reach populations in almost all countries. Targeting German ...
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Comparative Migration Studies
13 (2025), 1, 56
| Steffen Pötzschke, Bernd Weiß
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India has emerged as the fastest-growing nation in recent years, and rising inequality may obstruct this path, leading to serious socio-economic challenges. This situation has raised the demand for micro-level data among policymakers to facilitate effective decentralised planning and reduce regional disparity. However, the survey data is not ideal for understanding disparities at the disaggregated ...
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Review of Regional Research
(2025),
| Bharat Diwakar Preeti
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Perceived expectations for active aging (PEAA) reflect subjective exposure to social expectations about staying active and fit in old age, for example, by maintaining health and social engagement. We investigated whether motivational and personality factors were related to PEAA in the domains of physical health, mental health, and social engagement. We used a nationally representative sample of German ...
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Aging & Mental Health
28 (2024), 11, 1559–1566
| Sonja Radoš, Maria K. Pavlova, Klaus Rothermund, Rainer K. Silbereisen
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Despite increasing female labor force participation, gender differences in non-market work, such as housework and childcare, persist. By exploiting exogenous variation in the questionnaire of the German Socio-Economic Panel, I analyze how response behavior affects estimates of time use in a longitudinal setting. I find a causal impact of questionnaire design on the reported hours of non-market work ...
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German Economic Review
(online first) (2025),
| Mara Rebaudo