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We investigate the role of cultural norms in shaping women's labor supply decisions after childbirth. Specifically, we are interested in the interplay between childhood socialization and adulthood environment. To that end, we leverage the setting of the German reunification when East Germany's gender-egalitarian culture induced by socialism and West Germany's more traditional culture ...
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American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
17 (2025), 2, 41–74
| Barbara Boelmann, Anna Raute, Uta Schönberg
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Mind perception – the inference of mind in others – is foundational for social cognition and interaction, but previous research on its underlying dimensions has so far only produced mixed findings. In a prominent study, H.M. Gray et al. (2007) identified two dimensions of mind perception – Agency and Experience –, while more recent work instead suggests three dimensions similar to Body, Heart, and ...
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Cognition
265 (2025), 106231
| Nele J. Bögemann, Lasana T. Harris, Steffen Nestler
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Technological change and globalization have caused unprecedented transformations of labour markets, resulting in a growing division between workers who perform cognitive vs non-cognitive tasks. To date, only few studies have addressed the fertility effects of these long-term structural changes. This study fills that gap. We measure the cognitive task content of occupations using data from the Employment ...
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Population Studies
79 (2025), 2, 225–251
| Honorata Bogusz, Anna Matysiak, Michaela Kreyenfeld
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Maternal sleep is significantly disrupted in the postpartum period, but changes in paternal sleep are less established. Here, we systematically review and meta-analyze available data on paternal sleep in the first 24months post birth, including self-report and objectively measured sleep outcomes. Scopus, PsycINFO, and PubMed were searched for original research articles published until end August 2024. ...
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Sleep Health
11 (2025), 3, 279–292
| Julie S. Nielsen, Emil F. Brunbjerg, Maria Hamann Lorentzen, Annika Andersen, Christine E. Parsons
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Science has long struggled with unsuccessful replications and reproductions, a challenge that raises questions about the robustness and credibility of research findings. One potential contributing factor is selective reporting or nonpublication of certain results based on their direction or strength, leading to publication bias. To better understand its extent and risk factors, we examined 178 successful ...
OSF Preprints:
2025,
| Désirée Nießen, Caroline Poppa, Jessica Daikeler, Henning Silber, Bernd Weiß, David Richter
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Previous research has shown that social inequalities in the transition to higher education are a persistent phenomenon in Germany. Additionally, studies indicate that graduates from vocational schools are less likely to enter higher education, compared to their peers who graduated from general schools. However, research is scarce about how social background effects may differ for graduates from vocational ...
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Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
17 (2025), 1, 7
| David Nika
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Free speech is essential for informed decision-making, government efficacy, and fostering innovation in liberal societies. But what promotes or hinders freedom of speech values? Exploiting the natural experiment of German separation and later reunification, we show that living under communism has had lasting effects on free speech opinions, and the convergence process has been slow. East Germans are ...
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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
227 (2024),
| Milena Nikolova, Olga Popova
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Wealth inequality results from stratified access to accumulation opportunities, relating to differences in income, financial behavior, and transfers. Yet, it remains unclear whether these wealth accumulation channels differ in their perceived relevance for women and men along the wealth distribution. A deeper understanding of such perceptions is crucial for explaining attitudes toward inequality, shaping ...
OSF Preprints:
2025,
| Theresa Nutz, Nicole Kapelle, Daria Tisch
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In light of persistent regional inequalities in adaptive outcomes such as health, well-being, and related personality traits, psychological research is increasingly adopting a historical perspective to understand the deeper roots of these patterns. In this study, we examine the role of ancient cultures, specifically the impact of Roman civilization around two thousand years ago, on the macro-psychological ...
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Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology
8 (2025), 100214
| Martin Obschonka, Fabian Wahl, Michael Fritsch, Michael Wyrwich, P. Jason Rentfrow, Jeff Potter, Samuel D. Gosling
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Interviewers have long been identified as a source of error in face-to-face surveys. However, previous studies have typically focused on a single source of interviewer error and single-country cross-sectional surveys. We extend this literature by investigating interviewer errors from multiple dimensions in the Oesterreichische Nationalbank Euro Survey, a cross-national survey conducted annually in ...
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Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society
(online first) (2025),
| Lukas Olbrich, Elisabeth Beckmann, Joseph W Sakshaug