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Objective: This study examined potentially gendered net worth changes over the marital dissolution process, starting up to 3 years prior to separation and continuing up to 15 years postdivorce. Background: Incipient literature showed steep wealth declines for men and women associated with divorce, treating marital dissolution as a single point-in-time event. These findings may be limiting as legal ...
In:
Journal of Marriage and Family
83 (2021), 1, 243-259
| Nicole Kapelle, Janeen Baxter
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Discrimination and rejection experienced by LGBTQI* people affect their mental health and, in the long term, their physical health as well. Survey data from the Socio-Economic Panel and Bielefeld University show that LGBTQI* people in Germany are affected by negative mental health outcomes three to four times more often than the rest of the population. Poor physical health that may be stress-related, ...
In:
DIW Weekly Report
5/6/2021 (2021), 42-50
| David Kasprowski, Mirjam Fischer, Xiao Chen, Lisa de Vries, Martin Kroh, Simon Kühne, David Richter, Zaza Zindel
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People effortlessly and rapidly form a first impression of an individual’s personality based on their facial appearance. Forming an impression based on facial cues can have real world implications, for example, for the outcome of elections, courtroom decisions or work-place interviews. Research using traditional methods has, however, failed to identify the facial features that are related to specific ...
2019,
| Matthias D. Keller
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To which extent do happiness correlates contribute to the stability of life satisfaction? Which method is appropriate to provide a conclusive answer to this question? Based on life satisfaction data of the German SOEP, we show that by Negative Binomial quasi-maximum likelihood estimation statements can be made as to how far correlates of happiness contribute to the stabilisation of life satisfaction. ...
In:
Journal of Happiness Studies
22 (2021), 8, 3611-3629
| Johannes Klement
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We use a unique survey of the EU labor force to investigate the relationship between occupational licensing and the gender wage gap. We find that the gender wage gap is canceled for licensed self-employed workers. However, this closure of the gender wage gap is not mirrored by significant changes in the gender gap in hours worked. Our results are robust using decomposition methods, quantile regressions, ...
London:
Centre fo Economomic Policy Research (CEPR),
2020,
(CEPR Discussion Paper No. 15338)
| Maria Koumenta, Mario Pagliero, Davud Rostam-Afschar
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The Kitagawa–Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition approach has been widely used to attribute group-level differences in an outcome to differences in endowment, coefficients, and their interactions. The method has been implemented for Stata in the popular oaxaca command for cross-sectional analyses. In recent decades, however, research questions have been more often focused on the decomposition of group-based ...
In:
The Stata Journal
21 (2021), 2, 360-410
| Hannes Kröger, Jörg Hartmann
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Motherhood penalties vary strongly across societal contexts. While most studies that aim to explain such differences focus on institutions, a smaller literature refers to the influence of cultural norms or a complex interaction between the two. Empirically, however, it is yet unclear if such norms play a role and how they—jointly with institutions—contribute to motherhood penalties. We make use of ...
2020,
(SocArXiv Preprints)
| Matthias Collischon, Andreas Eberl, Malte Reichelt
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Whilst gender inequality has been falling in the developed world, child-related gender inequality in pay has stayed constant. In this paper I use German panel data spanning across 33 years from 1984 until 2017 including over 50,000 individuals. The main contribution of this paper is the analysis of the effect of parenthood on women’s and men’s earnings using propensity score matching. I estimate the ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2021,
(SOEPpapers 1120)
| Charlotte H. Feldhoff
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An important issue on the political agenda of many developed countries is the intensive margin of formal child care and, consequently, the effects of expanding the operating hours of child care institutions. We add to this debate by studying the effects of offering full-day child care on child development. Specifically, we analyze the consequences of a substantial increase of full-day slots at the ...
In:
Labour Economics
55 (2018), December 2018, 259-281
| Christina Felfe, Larissa Zierow
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Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we analyze the effects of exposure to globalization on the fertility and marital behavior in Germany, until recently a lowest-low fertility setting. We find that exposure to greater import competition from Eastern Europe led to worse labor market outcomes and lower fertility rates. In contrast, workers in industries that benefited from increased ...
In:
Demography
59 (2022), 6, 2135-2159
| Osea Giuntella, Lorenzo Rotunno, Luca Stella