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Previous work has shown that preferences are not always stable across time, but surprisingly little is known about the reasons for this instability. I examine whether variation in people’s emotions over time predicts changes in risk attitudes. Using a large panel data set, I identify happiness, anger, and fear as signi<U+FB01>cant correlates of within-person changes in risk attitudes. Robustness ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2021,
(SOEPpapers 1118)
| Armando N. Meier
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Introduction: Empirical evidence on Ronald Inglehart's theory of value change shows that subsequent generations show a decline in values of physical and economic security (materialism) in favor of an increase in values of self-expression and autonomy (postmaterialism). Methods: We investigate in a pre-registered study whether Inglehart's theory also applies to partnership, such that millennials ...
In:
Journal of Adolescence
90 (2021), 23-31
| Louisa Scheling, David Richter
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Diese Dissertation besteht aus vier empirischen Kapiteln aus dem Bereich der Migrationsökonomik. Kapitel 1 untersucht die Auswirkungen von Aufenthaltsbeschränkungen auf die Teilnahme an Integrationskursen und auf die Sprachentwicklung von Geflüchteten. Ein neu eingeführtes Gesetz, die "Wohnsitzauflage", beschränkt Geflüchtete mit einem längerfristigen Aufenthaltsstatus in der Wahl ihres ersten ...
2021,
| Felicitas Schikora
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Up until recently incidences of tuberculosis (TB) had been declining for many years in Germany. The rise in TB cases coincided with a large increase in the number of people applying for asylum. We combine data from various sources to estimate the at-entry prevalence of TB for asylum seekers from 18 countries of origin and rely on survey data to explain the varying risk of suffering from TB. Our results ...
In:
Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
23 (2021), 6, 1187-1192
| Sven Stadtmüller, J. Schröder, S. Ehlers
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Behavioral economics evolves around the psychological underpinnings of economic decision-making. Over the last decades, it has become an established field of economics and has shed new light on our understanding of important economic questions. Many empirical evidences that contribute to the advancement of the behavioral approach are established with data from experiments, either in the lab or in the ...
2021,
| Chi Trieu
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Debates about affirmative action often revolve around fairness. Accordingly, we document substantial heterogeneity in the fairness perception of various affirmative action policies. But do these differences translate into different consequences? In a laboratory experiment, we study three different quota rules that favor individuals whose performance is low, either due to bad luck (discrimination), ...
In:
Economic Journal
133 (2023), 656, 3099-3135
| Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Chi Trieu, Jana Willrodt
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This article analyses the pattern of inequality across levels of education and its evolution over time from a cross-national comparative perspective. We employ a previously disregarded approach of sibling correlations to measure how the contribution of the total family background differs across achieved levels of education. We compare successive birth cohorts in Finland, Sweden, Germany, and the U.S. ...
Helsinki:
Inequalities, Interventions, and New Welfare State (INVEST) at Academy of Finland,
2020,
(INVEST Working Papers 6/2020)
| Outi Sirniö, Hannu Lehti, Michael Grätz, Kieron Barclay, Jani Erola
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Experiencing a divorce can be challenging and have a lasting impact on people's lives, but does it change your personality? By making use of large panel surveys from Australia, Germany, and the United Kingdom, intra-individual change in the Big Five personality traits of those who separated during a four-year observation, was compared to that of those who remained married. We tested the replicability ...
In:
Personality and Individual Differences
171 (2021), 110428
| Sascha Spikic, Dimitri Mortelmans, Inge Pasteels
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The importance of first impressions for various intrapersonal, social and societal outcomes is well established. First impressions towards refugees as individual members of one of the most heatedly discussed social groups in Western societies should play a key role in facilitating or impeding successful social integration. However, this issue is currently underexplored. To help understand first impressions ...
In:
Collabra: Psychology
7 (2021), 1, 22160
| Joscha Stecker, Paul C. Bürkner, Jens H. Hellmann, Steffen Nestler, Mitja D. Back
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The risk-free rate of return has been declining in real terms over millennia. We isolate the role of time preference – or patience – in explaining this decline. Three facts support our approach: experimental evidence finds significant heterogeneity in patience; individual preference characteristics are highly intergenerationally persistent; and, longitudinal data shows that patience is positively related ...
St Andrews:
University of St Andrews,
2020,
(CDMA Working Paper Series No. 2001)
| Radoslaw Stefanski, Alex Trew