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We use quasi-experimental expansion of publicly funded childcare slots for children under the age of three from Germany and exploit regional variations of this large-scale expansion to account for endogenous and selective fertility decisions. To account for left and right censoring, we implement this quasi-experimental framework into the setting of the semiparametric Cox hazard model. By using spatial ...
In:
Bulletin of Economic Research
75 (2023), 2, 476-507
| Eric Schuss, Mohammed Azaouagh
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This paper provides causal evidence on the effect of in-utero exposure to air pollution on noncognitive ability in childhood. I use the meteorological phenomenon of thermal inversions to address the endogeneity in exposure to particulate matter and data from a representative household survey in Germany to measure noncognitive abilities. I find that an increase in particulate matter concentration by ...
2022,
(Working Paper)
| Beate Thies
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To make profitable investment decisions, investors must know and understand their risks. They can learn about these risks in different ways. Evidence suggests that investors who learn from a “risk tool” simulator perceive financial risk more accurately, feel more informed and confident, and thus take on more financial risk. We attempt a conceptual replication of these findings, exploring whether they ...
2022,
(PsyArXiv Preprints)
| Tomás Lejarraga, Kavitha Ranganathan, Dirk U. Wulff
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Income and wealth disparities among older households were wider in the United States than in selected countries from 1998 through 2019, according to GAO's review of households headed by those 55 and older. For example, in 2007, the median, or “typical,” income of high-income older households in the United States was about 12 times greater than that of low-income households, compared to about 6 ...
Washington D.C.:
U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO),
2022,
(GAO-22-103950)
| U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO)
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The start and end of a romantic relationship are associated with substantial changes in life satisfaction. Yet, whether Big Five personality traits moderate these relationship transition effects is hardly known. Such knowledge helps to understand individual variation in relationship transition effects and provides the possibility to further test the stress and social support explanations of these effects. ...
In:
Journal of Happiness Studies
24 (2023), 1, 141-157
| Wilfred Uunk, Paula Hoffmann
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While left and right are the main terms to distinguish political views in Western Europe, the family socialization of citizens has mainly been studied in terms of partisan preferences rather than identification with these ideological blocks. Therefore, this study investigates the intergenerational transmission of left-right ideological positions in two European multiparty systems. To investigate expectations ...
In:
European Journal of Political Research
62 (2023), 1, 3-24
| Mathilde M. van Ditmars
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International migration originating from highly developed countries is a crucial component of global migration flows. There are, however, surprisingly little data about the international mobility of the populations of affluent countries. The German Emigration and Remigration Panel Study (GERPS) aims to provide a resource that enables the analysis of individual consequences of international migration ...
Wiesbaden:
Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung (BiB),
2022,
(BiB Data and Technical Reports 2/2022)
| Nils Witte, Jean P. Décieux, Marcel Erlinghagen, Andreas Ette, Andreas Genoni, Jean Guedes Auditor, Frederik Knirsch, Simon Kühne, Lisa Mansfeld, Norbert F. Schneider
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Spatially disaggregated income indicators are typically estimated by using model-based methods that assume access to auxiliary information from population micro-data. In many countries like Germany and the UK population micro-data are not publicly available. In this work we propose small area methodology when only aggregate population-level auxiliary information is available. We use data-driven transformations ...
In:
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society)
185 (2022), 4, 1679-1706
| Nora Würz, Timo Schmid, Nikos Tzavidis
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We investigate the life satisfaction (LS) trajectories of immigrants in Germany. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1984 to 2015, we find that recently arrived immigrants are more satisfied with their lives than comparable German natives. However, their LS decreases more over time than that of their German counterparts; that is, we observe a negative years-since-migration (YSM)–LS ...
In:
Migration Studies
10 (2022), 4, 670-702
| Firat Yaman, Patricia Cubi-Molla, Anke C. Plagnol
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In most cross-national research on Life Satisfaction (LS) an implicit assumption appears to be that the correlates of LS are the same the world over; ‘one size fits all’. Using data from the World Values Survey (1999–2014), we question this assumption by assessing the effects of differing personal values/life priorities on LS in five world regions: the West, Latin America, the Asian-Confucian region, ...
In:
Applied Research in Quality of Life
17 (2022), 2, 763-794
| Bruce Headey, Gisela Trommsdorff, Gert G. Wagner