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Refereed essays Web of Science
Young people with disability face significant barriers to stable employment. Yet, little is known about how early labor market experiences shape their long-term mental health. This study examines associations between early career insecurity and subsequent mental health trajectories, focusing on disability status as a key axis of inequality. We use nationally representative longitudinal data from the ...
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SSM - Population Health
34 (2026), 101912, 14 S.
| Sophia Fauser, Irma Mooi-Recic, Marissa Shields, Zoe Aitken, Anne Kavanagh
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Modern democracies are undergoing multiple, overlapping transformations, driven by globalization, digitalization, migration, inequality, and climate change. While some adapt with openness, others experience what Mau et al. (2023) term Veränderungserschöpfung – change fatigue: the sense that “too much is changing, too fast, and all at once.” This paper examines whether and how such fatigue...
24.06.2026| Katja Schmidt, HU Berlin
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DIW Discussion Papers 2164 / 2026
Carbon pricing can deliver large emissions reductions, but public opposition remains a key barrier. We study how support for carbon tax-and-transfer schemes depends on policy design and information provision in a large-scale survey experiment with German respondents. Explaining the policy mechanism robustly increases support across price levels. Information on distributional consequences raises support ...
2026| Sandra Bohmann, Lars Felder, Peter Haan, Merve Kucuk,, Laura Schmitz, Jürgen Schupp
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Refereed essays Web of Science
In this paper, we combine Census data with death records to examine the relationship between income inequality and race-specific mortality across 5,565 municipalities in Brazil. We find that overall income inequality is strongly associated with Non-White mortality but not with White mortality. To understand this disparity, we decompose the Gini coefficient and find that the racial income gap accounts ...
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World Development
202 (2026), 107340, 15 S.
| Gedeão Locks, Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Mentoring has become a popular support strategy for recently arrived immigrants and refugees, offering access to valuable information and resources. However, little is known about selection processes into mentoring programs—who chooses to enrol, who receives support, and whether these patterns are systematic. Such selection affects not only program evaluations but also broader issues of refugee integration ...
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European Sociological Review
(2026), im Ersch. [online first: 2025-08-25]
| Nicolas M. Legewie, Philipp Jaschke, Magdalena Krieger, Martin Kroh, Lea-Maria Löbel
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DIW Discussion Papers 2171 / 2026
We develop a three-step procedure for ex-ante policy evaluation. It combines (i) a vignette survey that randomizes out-of-sample policies (child allowances and external childcare subsidies) to infer fertility responses; (ii) two applied-theory lifecycle models estimated on external microdata; and (iii) the inserting of the randomized policies into the models’ estimated fertility decision rules to obtain ...
2026| Joshua Goldstein, Christos Koulovatianos, Jian Li, Carsten Schröder
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Refereed essays Web of Science
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 ...
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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
248 (2026), 107641, 14 S.
| Yifan Yang, Magnus Johannesson, Anna Dreber, Frank Fossen, Levent Neyse, Felix Holzmeister
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This paper estimates and analyzes the distribution and composition of pre-tax national income in Germany since reunification, combining personal income tax returns, household survey data, and national accounts. We find that pre-tax national income inequality has increased since the 1990s, though to a lesser extent than suggested by previous studies. Our results draw parallels in top income structure ...
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European Economic Review
181 (2026),105149, 19 S.
| Stefan Bach, Charlotte Bartels, Theresa Neef
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Regional economic disparities within countries have become increasingly large, often surpassing the disparities observed between countries. To address regional inequality, governments have been turning away from standard subsidies and are experimenting with public employment reallocation as a place-based policy. This paper estimates the causal effect of public employment reallocation on local...
21.01.2026| Dimitria Freitas, TU Dresden
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This paper presents comparative information on the strength of the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and literacy skills at ages 6–8, drawing on data from France, Germany, Japan, Rotterdam (Netherlands), the United Kingdom, and the United States. We investigate whether the strength of the association between SES and literacy skills in early-to-mid childhood depends on the operationalization ...
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AERA Open
(2026), im Ersch. [online first: 2024-12-02]
| Jascha Dräger, Elizabeth Washbrook, Thorsten Schneider, Hideo Akabayashi, Renske Keizer, Anne Solaz, Jane Waldfogel, Sanneke de la Rie, Yuriko Kameyama, Sarah Kwon, Kayo Nozaki, Valentina Perinetti Casoni, Shinpei Sano, Alexandra Sheridan, Chizuru Shikishima