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The Density Distribution approach to personality characterizes traits using both mean levels and within-person variability of behaviors. Recent theory highlights that emotion regulation (ER) is inherently variable, and this Density Distribution approach seems particularly suitable to understand both average tendencies and dynamics of ER as person-specific characteristics. However, there is not yet ...
In:
European Journal of Psychological Assessment
36 (2020), 3, 447-455
| Elisabeth S. Blanke, Elise K. Kalokerinos, Michaela Riediger, Annette Brose
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Mindfulness is a state of awareness comprising an attentional focus on the present moment and a nonjudgmental stance. It is associated with affective well-being and assumed to facilitate adaptive emotion regulation. To support this claim at the within-person level, we investigated associations between 2 mindfulness facets (present-moment attention and nonjudgmental acceptance), 2 emotion-regulation ...
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Emotion
20 (2020), 8, 1369-1381
| Elisabeth S. Blanke, Mirjam J. Schmidt, Michaela Riediger, Annette Brose
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This study concerns how male and female same-sex couples across countries organize their paid and household labor. Using unique data compiled from multiple national surveys in 7 western countries (N = 723), we examined same-sex couples? paid and household task allocation and evaluate descriptively how this is associated with countries? gender egalitarianism. For paid labor, results indicate that female ...
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Journal of GLBT Family Studies
17 (2021), 2, 150-167
| Maaike van der Vleuten, Eva Jaspers, Tanja van der Lippe
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The poor have a significantly shorter life expectancy than the wealthy. Using data from the Socio-Economic Panel, this Weekly Report shows that poorer people become in need of care earlier in life and more often. In addition, blue-collar workers have a higher risk of requiring care than civil servants, as do people with high job strain compared to those with low job strain. The risk of dependence on ...
In:
DIW Weekly Report
44/2021 (2021), 339-346
| Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Hannes Kröger, Maximilian Schaller
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Wealth is an increasingly important dimension of economic well-being and is attracting rising attention in discussions of social inequality. In this article, we compare – within and across countries – wealth outcomes, and link those to both employment-related factors and policy solutions that have the potential to improve wealth creation and retirement security for women. By constructing country-specific ...
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Journal of European Social Policy
31 (2021), 5, 549-564
| Janet C Gornick, Eva Sierminska
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Inequalities in health are a prevalent feature of societies. And as societies, we condemn inequalities that are rooted in immutable circumstances such as gender, race, and parental background. Consequently, policy makers are interested in measuring and understanding the causes of health inequalities rooted in circumstances. However, identifying causal estimates of these relationships is very ambitious ...
2021,
| Daniel Graeber
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As the policy debate on entrepreneurship increasingly centers on firm growth in terms of job creation, it is important to understand whether the personality of entrepreneurs drives the first hiring in their firms. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we analyze to what extent personality traits influence the probability of becoming an employer. The results indicate that personality matters. ...
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Industrial and Corporate Change
31 (2022), 3, 736-761
| Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, Alexander S. Kritikos
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This dissertation consists of four independent chapters which contribute to the economic analysis of non-cognitive skills and the quality of education. These chapters are preceded by a comprehensive introduction that motivates the individual research questions and indicates common and complementary contributions of the four main chapters. The chapters are followed by a conclusion that discusses potential ...
2018,
| Georg F. Camehl
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This paper evaluates how a light-touch parenting program for parents of children below school entry age affects maternal family well-being. We analyze data from a randomized controlled trial focusing on non-disadvantaged parents. Overall, results show no short-term effects but a relatively large positive effect of the intervention on maternal family well-being in the medium term. With a 20- to 30-percent ...
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The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy
20 (2020), 4, 20200084
| Georg F. Camehl, C. Katharina Spieß, Kurt Hahlweg
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We examine the relationship between parenting activities and centre-based care using time diary and survey data for mothers in Germany. While mothers using centre-based care spend significantly less time in the presence of their child, we find that differences in the time spent on specific activities such as reading, talking, and playing with the child are relatively small or zero. The pattern of results ...
In:
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
84 (2022), 6, 1356-1379
| Jonas Jessen, Christa Katharina Spieß, Sevrin Waights