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Experiencing a divorce can be challenging and have a lasting impact on people's lives, but does it change your personality? By making use of large panel surveys from Australia, Germany, and the United Kingdom, intra-individual change in the Big Five personality traits of those who separated during a four-year observation, was compared to that of those who remained married. We tested the replicability ...
In:
Personality and Individual Differences
171 (2021), 110428
| Sascha Spikic, Dimitri Mortelmans, Inge Pasteels
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The importance of first impressions for various intrapersonal, social and societal outcomes is well established. First impressions towards refugees as individual members of one of the most heatedly discussed social groups in Western societies should play a key role in facilitating or impeding successful social integration. However, this issue is currently underexplored. To help understand first impressions ...
In:
Collabra: Psychology
7 (2021), 1, 22160
| Joscha Stecker, Paul C. Bürkner, Jens H. Hellmann, Steffen Nestler, Mitja D. Back
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The risk-free rate of return has been declining in real terms over millennia. We isolate the role of time preference – or patience – in explaining this decline. Three facts support our approach: experimental evidence finds significant heterogeneity in patience; individual preference characteristics are highly intergenerationally persistent; and, longitudinal data shows that patience is positively related ...
St Andrews:
University of St Andrews,
2020,
(CDMA Working Paper Series No. 2001)
| Radoslaw Stefanski, Alex Trew
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This dissertation examines heterogeneity in the timing of leaving home at the individual and contextual level. At the individual level, it addresses the well-established finding that young adults from separated families leave home earlier than those from two-parent families. How can these differences in the age at leaving home be explained? What is the role of resources and relationships in the parental ...
2020,
| Lonneke van den Berg
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Why do voters for the radical right tend to cluster in specific geographic locations? Many scholars have emphasized the economic roots of radical right support. Other scholarship highlights the role of the urban-rural divide, contending that the radical right finds support in low population density locations due to distinctive social values and strong place-based social identities found in rural areas. ...
In:
American Political Science Review
118 (2024), 3, 1480-1496
| Daniel Ziblatt, Hanno Hilbig, Daniel Bischof
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Involuntarily or planned – many refugees flee their home country alone, leave behind spouses and children but also siblings, parents and other family members they otherwise care for. Reunification in hosting communities is difficult, as governments limit institutional family reunifications and the individual journey of kin is dangerous and often illegal. Having family abroad is mentally distressing ...
In:
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
47 (2021), 13, 2916-2937
| Lea-Maria Löbel, Jannes Jacobsen
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The job polarization hypothesis suggests a U-shaped pattern of employment growth along the earnings/skill distribution, which is driven by simultaneous growth in the employment of highskill/high-earnings and low-skill/low-earnings occupations due to Routine-Biased Technological Change (RBTC) [Acemoglu and Autor, 2011]. An aspect of both high social and political relevance is the implications of job ...
2024,
(SSRN Working Paper)
| Maximilian Longmuir, Carsten Schröder, Matteo Targa
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Should rich people pay higher taxes? To answer this question an individual needs to consider his attitudes towards income redistribution. Such preferences might be based on the individual income but also on social factors. Using socioeconomic data we find that self-interested motives are indeed an important driver for the preferences of income redistribution. However , our analysis reveals that social ...
2020,
(Preprint)
| Neil Murray, Hubertus von Meien
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In addition to biological sex, gender, defined as the sociocultural dimension of being a woman or a man, plays acentral role in health. However, there are so far few approaches to quantify gender in a retrospective manner in existing study datasets. We therefore aimed to develop a methodology that can be retrospectively applied to assess gender in existing cohorts. We used baseline data from the Berlin ...
In:
Biology of Sex Differences
12 (2021), 15,
| Ahmad Tauseef Nauman, Hassan Behloudi, Nicholas Alexander, Friederike Kendel, Johanna Drewelies, Konstantios Mantantzis, Nora Berger, Gert G. Wagner, Denis Gerstorf, Ilja Demuth, Louise Pilote, Vera Regitz-Zagrosek
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The homeownership rate in Germany is one of the lowest among advanced economies. To better understand this fact, we evaluate the role of specific housing policies that tend to discourage homeownership. In comparison to other countries with higher homeownership such as the United States, Germany has an extensive social housing sector with broad eligibility criteria, high transfer taxes when buying real ...
In:
Journal of the European Economic Association
19 (2021), 1, 128-164
| Leo Kaas, Georgi Kocharkov, Edgar Preugschat, Nawid Siassi