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We explore whether retrospective voting is related to voters’ democratic experience. To this end, we compare the voting behavior in West Germany to the voting behavior in the formerly non-democratic East Germany after a disaster relief program addressing a flood in 2013. Our analysis reveals a 2.2% (or 0.9 percentage points) increase in the vote share for the incumbent party in the flooded municipalities ...
In:
European Economic Review
133 (2021), 103665
| Michael Neugart, Johannes Rode
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Panel attrition poses major threats to the survey quality of panel studies. Many features have been introduced to keep panel attrition as low as possible. Based on a random sample of refugees, a highly mobile population, we investigate whether using a mobile phone application improves address quality and response behavior. Various features, including geo-tracking, collecting email addresses and adress ...
In:
Social Science Computer Review
39 (2021), 4, 721-743
| Jannes Jacobsen, Simon Kühne
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Because of their often-dramatic, life-threatening flight patterns and resulting pronounced health disparities, many refugees have a great need for medical treatment after arrival to their host countries. In Germany, refugees whose asylum application is not approved or whose duration of stay has not yet exceeded 15 months must request doctor visits, with a considerable amount of bureaucracy, from the ...
In:
International Migration Review
55 (2021), 3, 812-842
| Philipp Jaschke, Yuliya Kosyakova
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This article deals with the modeling of life-satisfaction, and estimating the impact of age on it. We investigate how findings and the interpretation of empirical studies hinge on the respectively assumed model. Assuming a specific model comprises various hypothesis made on the data generating process, like indicator selection, measurement, or functional form specifications. In this study we focus ...
In:
Journal of Happiness Studies
21 (2020), 6, 2193-2212
| Setareh Ranjbar, Stefan Sperlich
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Background: The question of whether employees’ sickness absence from the workplace depends on personality has been researched. Existing evidence mostly stems from cross-sectional studies, mainly showing that personality factors were not associated with the number of sick leave days, except for neuroticism, which was positively associated with sick leave days. Based on the above, it remains an under ...
In:
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
17 (2020), 3, 1089
| Yulia I. Raynik, Hans-Helmut König, André Hajek
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Practice engagement theory (PET) posits that individuals’ literacy proficiencies develop as a by-product of their engagement in everyday reading and writing practices and, reciprocally, that literacy proficiencies affect levels of engagement in reading and writing practices. This suggests that literacy training which increases engagement in meaningful practices might generate proficiency growth. Research ...
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International Review of Education
66 (2020), 2, 267-288
| Stephen Reder, Britta Gauly, Clemens Lechner
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Using longitudinal data from Germany and Australia for the 2001‒2013 period, this study investigates the link between non-standard employment, such as fixed-term contracts, temporary agency work, part-time and casual work, and first birth within couple relationships. In contrast to previous studies, competing risks event history models are estimated to simultaneously consider couples’ risks of first ...
In:
European Journal of Population
36 (2020), 5, 843-874
| Inga Laß
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To better understand the occurrence of major changes in people´s lives like job changes or relocations, we test a model of motivational consequences of life and domain satisfaction using data of the German socio-economic panel study (SOEP) (waves 2005–2015; Ns between 2,201 and 28,720). We examined job and location changes as outcomes that people may actively initiate as a result of dissatisfaction ...
In:
PLOS ONE
15 (2020), 9, e0238992
| Till Kaiser, Marie Hennecke, Maike Luhmann
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Although there is strong support for renewable energy plants, they are often met with local resistance. We quantify the externalities of renewable energy plants using wellbeing data. We focus on the example of biogas, one of the most frequently deployed technologies besides wind and solar. To this end, we combine longitudinal household data with novel panel data on more than 13,000 installations in ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2020,
(SOEPpapers 1116)
| Christian Krekel, Julia Rechlitz, Johannes Rode, Alexander Zerrahn
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Background: Neighbourhood has risen as a relevant determinant of health. While there is substantial evidence that environmental factors affect health, far less evidence of the role of social mechanisms in the causal chain between neighbourhood characteristics and health is available. Method: To evaluate the role of social cohesion as a mediator between four different neighbourhood characteristics and ...
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BMC Public Health
20 (2020), 1, 1043
| Sara Kress, Oliver Razum, Kim Alexandra Zolitschka, Jürgen Breckenkamp, Odile Sauzet