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This paper provides the first in-depth investigation into the evolution of the wealth gap between CCP and non-CCP households in urban China from 1995 to 2017. We apply unconditional quantile regression to analyze the variations in the premiums of party membership across the wealth distribution. Our results show that although the average wealth gap between CCP and non-CCP households remained substantial ...
In:
World Development
181 (2024), 106660
| Matteo Targa, Li Yang
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Research across a number of different areas in psychology has long shown that optimism and pessimism are predictive of a number of important future life outcomes. Despite a vast literature on the correlates and consequences, we know very little about how optimism and pessimism change across adulthood and old age and the sociodemographic factors that are associated with individual differences in such ...
In:
Psychology and Aging
39 (2024), 1, 14-30
| Julia Tetzner, Johanna Drewelies, Sandra Duezel, Ilja Demuth, Gert G. Wagner, Margie Lachman, Ulman Lindenberger, Nilam Ram, Denis Gerstorf
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Reverse correlation (RC) is a data-driven method from social psychology that has been effectively shown to visualize the mental representations that humans hold regarding facial attributes. The method helps to understand what features are relevant in terms of the evaluation of faces, such as dominance or submissiveness. To the best of our knowledge, RC has solely been applied to faces within the area ...
In:
Journal of Environmental Psychology
98 (2024), 102401
| Kira Pohlmann, Nour Tawil, Timothy R. Brick, Simone Kühn
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This research paper investigated the effect of consumers’ Big Five personality traits on the adoption of residential photovoltaic systems in Germany. To account for different types or groups of households, a multigroup structural equation model with N = 9,281 individuals was analyzed using data from a nationwide, representative household panel. It could be shown that the ways in which personality traits ...
In:
Energy Research & Social Science
77 (2021), 102087
| Stefan Poier
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Measuring multidimensional inequality by means of a univariate index requires weighting the dimensions of inequality. This paper explores the normative and empirical problems involved in measuring inequality by estimating hedonic weights on the basis of German microdata. In contrast to previous works, the perception of inequality, derived from subjective social status, has been used to estimate a weighting ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
146 (2019), 3, 511-531
| Philipp Poppitz
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In the last few decades, the study of ordinal data in which the variable of interest is not exactly observed but only known to be in a specific ordinal category has become important. In Psychometrics such variables are analysed under the heading of item response models (IRM). In Econometrics, subjective well-being (SWB) and self-assessed health (SAH) studies, and in marketing research, Ordered Probit, ...
Amsterdam:
Tinbergen Institute,
2024,
(Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper TI 2024-075/III)
| Bernard M.S. van Praag, Peter J. Hop, William H. Greene
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We revisit the Easterlin paradox about the flatness of the happiness trend over the long run, in spite of sustained economic development. With a bounded scale that explicitly refers to “the best possible life for you” and “the worst possible life for you”, is it even possible to observe a rising trend in self-declared life satisfaction? We consider the possibility of rescaling, i.e. that the interpretation ...
Paris School of Economics,
2024,
(Working Paper No. 2024-61)
| Alberto Prati, Claudia Senik
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Measures of private wealth often refer to households or tax-units, but how does household wealth relate to individual welfare? Analogous to household economies of scale for consumption, this paper offers a methodology and empirical results to account for household wealth scale effects. These scale effects vary depending on the purpose of savings: funding consumption versus holding wealth for motives ...
In:
Review of Income and Wealth
71 (2025), 1, e70002
| Severin Rapp
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Aim: Maintaining transnational ties may be an indication of poor integration into the host society (according to classical ‘assimilation theory’) or may convey additional capital resources to immigrants (the ‘transmigrant’ view of migration). Consequences for health would be negative in the first and positive in the second scenario. We tested the hypotheses that (1) maintaining transnational ties may ...
In:
Journal of Public Health
27 (2019), 4, 507-517
| Oliver Razum, Jürgen Breckenkamp, Margit Fauser
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As population aging will likely lead to an increasing number of people in need of care, the demand for informal care is expected to rise. In this context, it is often discussed whether financial incentives can motivate more individuals to assume caregiving responsibilities. We analyze the potential effect of financial incentives on the provision of informal care by estimating a structural model with ...
In:
Health Economics
(online first) (2024),
| Mara Rebaudo, Lena Calahorrano, Kathrin Hausmann