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ABSTRACT Understanding risk tolerance is crucial for predicting and changing behavior across various domains, including health and safety, finance, and ethics. This remains true during a crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, and leads to a key question: Do current risk measures reliably predict risk-taking in the drastically different context of a pandemic? The Domain Specific Risk-Taking (DOSPERT) ...
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Journal of Behavioral Decision Making
37 (2024), 4, e2413
| Benno Guenther, Matteo M. Galizzi, Jet G. Sanders
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In the social and behavioral sciences, surveys are frequently used to collect data. During the COVID-19 pandemic, surveys provided political actors and public health professionals with timely insights on the attitudes and behaviors of the general population. These insights were key in guiding actions to fight the pandemic. However, the data quality of these surveys remains unclear because systematic ...
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Scientific Data
11 (2024), 1, 619
| Tobias Gummer, Thomas Skora, Karolina von Glasenapp, Elias Naumann
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Asylum recognition rates in advanced democracies differ not only across states but also vary within them, translating into fluctuating individual chances to obtain protection. Existing studies on the determinants of these regional inequities typically rely on aggregate data. Utilizing a German refugee survey and leveraging a quasi-natural experiment arising from state-based allocation rules tied to ...
In:
Migration Studies
(online first) (2024),
| Lidwina Gundacker, Yuliya Kosyakova, Gerald Schneider
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Background There is a significant gap in sleep duration across countries with 56 percent of the Japanese population sleeps less than seven hours per day against around 30 percent in the United Kingdom (UK), Germany, and Australia. Similarly, labour market characteristics differ across these countries, with average working hours being higher in Australia and Japan compared to the UK and Germany, but ...
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medRxiv
medRxiv
| Ya Guo, Senhu Wang, Rong Fu, Jacques Wels
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In this chapter we deal with the health and inequality aspects of networks from a psychological and sociological life span perspective. In doing so, we pay attention to the mutual interactions between health, social inequality, and networks in the context of biographical transitions that decisively shape the life course of adults. We focus exclusively on young and middle adulthood—here roughly defined ...
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Andreas Klärner, Markus Gamper, Sylvia Keim-Klärner, Irene Moor, Holger von der Lippe, Nico Vonneilich ,
Social Networks and Health Inequalities: A New Perspective for Research
Cham: Springer
2022
153-179
| Holger von der Lippe, Olaf Reis
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The study ‘Refugees in the German Educational System’ is a two-cohort panel addressing the integration of refugee children and adolescents into the German educational system. Data collection followed a multi-informant perspective as well as a multi-mode approach. It started at Wave 1 in January 2018 with a sample of 2,405 refugee children and 2,415 refugee adolescents. Participants were followed over ...
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Journal of Open Psychology Data
11 (2023), 1, 1
| Jutta von Maurice, Gisela Will
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Background: The mapping of immigration-related health inequalities remains challenging, since immigrant populations constitute a heterogenous socially constructed group whose health experiences differ by social determinants of health. In spite of the increasing awareness that population mobility and its effects on health are highly gendered, an explicit gender perspective in epidemiology is often lacking ...
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BMC Public Health
22 (2022), 1, 683
| Lisa Wandschneider, Céline Miani, Oliver Razum
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Objective: In this study, we investigate the effect of flexible working time arrangements and parental leave experiences on the actual working and childcare hours of men. Background: Many fathers want to spend more time with their children and actively participate in family life, but, after becoming a parent, most work even more hours than before. To better combine work and family, the possibility ...
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Journal of Family Research
34 (2022), 2, 582-614
| Susanne Wanger, Ines Zapf
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Lifelong learning and adult education are central to adapt to ageing societies, globalization, and automatization. At the same time, causal analyses are scarce in the realm of adult education, mainly because of the voluntary nature of participation and a paucity of high-quality data. After a short motivation and an overview of each chapter in the first chapter, the four essays of this dissertation ...
2022,
| Insa Weilage
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Some people use healthcare services more than others. Identifying factors associated with healthcare use has the potential to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, and equity of healthcare. In line with the Andersen behavioral model of healthcare utilization and initial empirical findings, personality traits may be key predisposing factors associated with healthcare use. Across 15 samples, the present ...
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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
125 (2023), 3, 629-648
| Emily C. Willroth, Jing Luo, Olivia E. Atherton, Sara J. Weston, Johanna Drewelies, Philip J. Batterham, David M. Condon, Denis Gerstorf, Martijn Huisman, Avron Spiro, Daniel K. Mroczek, Eileen K. Graham