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Objective: To explore disparities in wealth trajectories between divorcees and continuously married individuals including moderation effects of remarriage and gender. Background: Amid concerns of long-term economic consequences of divorce, research illustrated that ever-divorced individuals hold less wealth than the married preretirement. However, it remains unclear whether this is a direct result ...
In:
Journal of Marriage and Family
84 (2022), 2, 592-611
| Nicole Kapelle
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In this article, we present an automated test procedure for examining the filter structure and instructions implemented in electronic questionnaires, and for checking the fit of a questionnaire to the targeted sample. With our approach, we can represent and describe questionnaires using mathematical graphs and specify questionnaire properties in a formal and standardised way. It also allows us deriving ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2021,
(SOEPpapers 1135)
| Katharina Stark, Sabine Zinn
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Happiness is strongly associated with goal attainment, productivity, mental health and suicidal risk. This paper examines the effect of satisfaction with areas of life on subjective well-being (SWB), the importance of relative perceptions compared to absolute measures in predicting overall life satisfaction, and differences in the domains of life which have the greatest impact on happiness of men and ...
In:
Acta Psychologica
230 (2022), October 2022, 103720
| Stefani Milovanska-Farrington, Stephen Farrington
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Starting in 2009, the German state of Saxony distributed sports club membership vouchers among all 33,000 third graders in the state. The policy’s objective was to encourage them to develop a long-term habit of exercising. In 2018, we carried out a large register-based survey among several cohorts in Saxony and two neighboring states. Our difference-in-differences estimations show that, even after ...
In:
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
14 (2022), 3, 128-165
| Jan Marcus, Thomas Siedler, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
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Work as well as family life are crucial sources of human wellbeing, which however often interfere. This is especially so if partners work in the same occupation or industry. At the same time, being work-linked may benefit their career success. Still, surprisingly little is known about the wellbeing of work-linked couples. Our study fills this gap by examining the satisfaction differences between work-linked ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2021,
(SOEPpapers 1127)
| Juliane Hennecke, Clemens Hetschko
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Research on the consequences of intermarriage is almost exclusively looking at immigrants’ labour market outcomes, with little attention given to non-economic indicators. Drawing from set-point theory and taking on a dynamic approach, the authors examine whether having a different- versus a same-origin partner is subject to a selection on life satisfaction, or associated with a greater short-term improvement ...
In:
Journal of Happiness Studies
22 (2021), 3, 1413-1440
| Gina Potarca, Laura Bernardi
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Previous research on informal spousal caregiving has documented a reduced life satisfaction among caregivers, but it has rarely considered the dynamics over time, the mechanisms that drive these effects, and different types of transitions out of caregiving. This study aims to fill this gap by focusing on spousal caregivers’ life satisfaction before, during, and after episodes of caregiving. We apply ...
In:
Journal of Happiness Studies
22 (2021), 3, 1481-1516
| Regina Gerlich, Tobias Wolbring
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We estimate wage premiums (male, union member and public sector) in West Germany using post penalized expectile regression. The estimation relies on data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 2010-2017. We use a double robust LASSO as penalization technique, which allows us to deal with potential omitted variable bias and to conduct expectile-specific model selection. In addition, we enrich our study ...
Erlangen-Nuremberg:
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Labor and Socio-Economic Research Center,
2020,
(LASER Discussion Papers - Paper No. 120)
| Giovanni Bonaccolto, Marina Töpfer
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This study investigates the effect of smallholders’ personality traits on their land rental market decisions. We develop a conceptual framework and show that these internal factors could affect smallholders’ land rental market participation beyond institutional and socio-demographic factors. Our empirical analysis is based on a survey of 2119 rural households collected in the North China Plain. We ...
In:
China Economic Review
62 (2020), August 2020, 101510
| Chen Qian, Fan Li, Gerrit Antonides, Nico Heerink, Xianlei Ma, Xiande Li
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Introduction: Older adults show higher interindividual performance variability during the learning of new motor sequences than younger adults. It is largely unknown what factors contribute to this variability. This study aimed to, first, characterize age differences in motor sequence learning and, second, examine influencing factors for interindividual performance differences. Method: 30 young adults ...
In:
Psychological Research
85 (2021), 4, 1488–1502
| Katharina Zwingmann, Lena Hübner, Willem B. Verwey, Jonathan S. Barnhoorn, Ben Godde, Claudia Voelcker-Rehage