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Several vaccines against COVID-19 have now been developed and are already being rolled out around the world. The decision whether or not to get vaccinated has so far been left to the individual citizens. However, there are good reasons, both in theory as well as in practice, to believe that the willingness to get vaccinated might not be sufficiently high to achieve herd immunity. A policy of mandatory ...
In:
PLOS ONE
16 (2021), 5, e0248372
| Daniel Graeber, Christoph Schmidt-Petri, Carsten Schröder
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We evaluate two variants of a school-based, intensive learning camp for pupils who are assessed 'not ready' for further education after compulsory school, using a stratified cluster randomized trial involving 15,559 pupils in 264 schools in Denmark. Next to training pupils in Danish and mathematics, the main variant targets non-cognitive skills, while the alternative variant instead uses ...
Bonn:
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA),
2020,
(IZA DP No. 13771)
| Charlotte Hvidman, Alexander Koch, Julia Nafziger, Søren A. Nielsen, Michael Rosholm
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Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) are developing Joint Estimates of the work-related burden of disease and injury (WHO/ILO Joint Estimates), with contributions from a large network of experts. Evidence from mechanistic data suggests that exposure to long working hours may increase alcohol consumption and cause alcohol use disorder. In this ...
In:
Environment International
146 (2021), 106205
| Daniela V. Pachito, Frank Pega, Jelena Bakusic, Hannes Kröger
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This study examines the association between employment trajectories and retired men’s and women’s individual wealth at older ages in the two distinct welfare state contexts of Eastern and Western Germany. Because of the increasing re-marketization of retirement provisions, wealth is becoming increasingly important for retirees’ economic well-being. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study ...
In:
Advances in Life Course Research
47 (2021), March 2021, 100374
| Theresa Nutz, Philipp M. Lersch
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There is an ongoing scientific debate about how environmental concern develops in a population, and under which circumstances it might decline at some point. In this paper, by analysing thirty years of microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), I investigate the role of socioeconomic factors and political preferences in altering and addressing environmental perceptions in Germany, Europe's ...
In:
Socio-Economic Planning Sciences
73 (2021), 100925
| Demetrio Panarello
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Prior research with predominantly younger to middle-aged samples has demonstrated that couples’ cortisol levels covary throughout the day (cortisol synchrony). Not much is known about cortisol synchrony in old age, and its potential broader societal correlates. The current study investigates associations between the socio-political context and cortisol synchrony as observed in older couples’ daily ...
In:
Psychoneuroendocrinology
124 (2021), 105082
| Theresa Pauly, Karolina Kolodziejczak, Johanna Drewelies, Denis Gerstorf, Nilam Ram, Christiane A. Hoppmann
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We analyze workers’ risk preferences and training investments. Our conceptual framework differentiates between the investment risk and insurance mechanisms underpinning training decisions. Investment risk leads risk-averse workers to train less; they undertake more training if it insures them against future losses. We use the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to demonstrate that risk affinity is associated ...
In:
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
205 (2023), 668-686
| Marco Caliendo, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Cosima Obst, Arne Uhlendorff
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The empirical literature is inconclusive about whether a country’s democratization goes hand in hand with a reallocation of economic resources. With newly available individual-level data of former residents of the socialist German Democratic Republic (GDR), we analyse how supporters and opponents of the socialist system performed within the market-based democracy of West Germany after reunification. ...
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European Journal of Political Economy
76 (2023), 2023, 102252
| Max Deter, Martin Lange
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This paper explores whether firms recruit workers with different personality traits for different tasks. We conduct a discrete choice experiment among recruiters of 634 firms in Germany, asking recruiters to choose between job applicants who differ in seven characteristics: professional competence, the Big Five personality traits, and the prospective wage level. We find that all personality traits ...
In:
Labour Economics
78 (2022), 102186
| Caroline Wehner, Andries de Grip, Harald Pfeifer
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Risk attitudes have a significant impact on human decision making. In contrast to the conventional assumption of stable, universal risk attitudes, previous research has found domain‐specific and age‐related differences in risk attitudes. For this reason, a systematic review including 19 studies was conducted to evaluate the relationship between self‐reported risk attitudes and aging in different domains ...
In:
Journal of Behavioral Decision Making
34 (2020), 3, 359-378
| Adriana N. König