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Loneliness has traditionally been studied on the individual level. This study is one of the first to systematically describe and explain differences in loneliness on a fine-grained regional level. Using data from the nationally representative German Socio-EconomicPanel Study (N = 17,602), we mapped the regional distribution of loneliness across Germany and examined whether regional differences in loneliness ...
In:
Social Psychological and Personality Science
12 (2021), 2, 147-155
| Susanne Buecker, Tobias Ebert, Friedrich M. Götz, Theresa Entringer, Maike Luhmann
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The aim of this paper is twofold: First, we implement and validate the famous Big Five model on personality traits in a rural developing country setting. Second, we provide micro level evidence that examines personality traits of rural households in Thailand and Vietnam. Using new representative individual level data, our results show that the Big Five model can be applied in a rural setting. Moreover, ...
Hannover:
Leibniz Universitaet Hannover, Institute of Development and Agricultural Economics, Project TVSEP,
2019,
(TVSEP Working Papers 14)
| Dorothee Bühler, Rasadhika Sharma, Wiebke Stein
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Objective: We investigate the applicability of the Big Five model in rural Southeast Asia and thereby challenge recent concerns about the validity of the model in developing countries. Method: We use a novel data set on personality traits from rural Thailand and Vietnam (N = 3811 individuals). In our analysis, we (i) assess the factor structure of the data, (ii) test the internal consistency of the ...
In:
Journal of Personality
91 (2023), 6, 1364-1380
| Dorothee Bühler, Rasadhika Sharma, Wiebke Stein
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Aus ökonomischer Sicht können Ehen und langjährige Partnerschaften als informeller Versicherungsmechanismus verstanden werden. Dieser implizite Versicherungsvertrag ist jedoch nicht vollständig durchsetzbar, da jeder Partner die Beziehung beenden kann, z.B. auch dann wenn seine Unterstützung im Falle eines negativen Lebensereignisses benötigt wird. Ein Beispiel eines solchen negativen Lebensereignisses ...
In:
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
190 (2021), 164-190
| Christian Bünnings, Lucas Hafner, Simon Reif, Harald Tauchmann
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This paper provides one of the first tests of adaptation to the complete set of residential transitions. We use long-run SOEP panel data and consider the impact of all housing transitions, whether or not they involve a change in housing tenure or geographical movement, on both life satisfaction and housing satisfaction. Controlling for individual characteristics, some residential transitions affect ...
In:
Review of Economics of the Household
21 (2023), 2, 645-672
| Andrew E. Clark, Luis Diaz-Serrano
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German separation in 1949 into a communist East and a capitalist West and their reunification in 1990 are commonly described as a natural experiment to study the enduring effects of communism. We show in three steps that the populations in East and West Germany were far from being randomly selected treatment and control groups. First, the later border is already visible in many socio-economic characteristics ...
In:
Journal of Economic Perspectives
34 (2020), 2, 143-171
| Sascha O. Becker, Lukas Mergele, Ludger Woessmann
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Using a new German individual data set, we investigate the influence on health with respect to personal traits measured by the Big Five, collegiality, commitment and job characteristics. Among the Big Five conscientiousness, agreeableness and emotional stability correlate positively with good health. Job characteristics like activities combined with substantial decision authority, no physically demanding ...
Bonn:
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA),
2019,
(IZA DP No. 12597)
| Lutz Bellmann, Olaf Hübler
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This is the first paper to examine experimentally effects of information provision on beliefs about pecuniary and non-pecuniary returns of postgraduate education, enrolment intentions and realized enrolment. We find that our treatment causally affects beliefs measured six months after treatment. The effects on beliefs differ by gender and academic background, and we find that stated enrolment intentions ...
In:
Economica
89 (2022), 355, 627-646
| Jan Berkes, Frauke Peter, C. Katharina Spieß, Felix Weinhardt
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We decompose the satisfaction gap between East and West Germany into objective circumstances and subjective mentality, the latter capturing the way circumstances are being evaluated. Using the methodology proposed by Senik (2014) we find circumstances and mentality to contribute in the proportion 55: 45%. The mentality-related gap is driven by birth cohorts socialized under different political regimes ...
In:
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
181 (2021), January 2021, 1-18
| Philipp Biermann, Heinz Welsch
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The volume presents an updated overview of the background ideas of the NEPS and its conceptional framework. It informs about the longitudinal structure of the multicohort sequence design and discusses its key methodological challenges as well as data protection issues. It also describes the organizational structure of the consortium of leading educational scientists and research institutions who have ...
Wiesbaden:
Springer VS,
2019,
| Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Hans-Günther (eds.) Roßbach