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Individuals’ preferences for immediate gratification versus their ability to postpone it, i.e., time preferences, might be related to their marginal utility or disutility stemming from an increase in the income of comparable others, i.e., relative concerns. We argue that while an increase in others’ income might lead to a higher level of marginal disutility for those seeking immediate gratification, ...
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Social Indicators Research
183 (2026), 1, 9
| Alpaslan Akay, Nur Banu Kartal
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German history over the past 125 years has been turbulent. Marked by two world wars, revolutions and major regime changes, as well as a hyperinflation and three currency reforms, expropriations and territorial divisions, it comprises extreme shocks to study the role of historical events, taxation, asset price changes, portfolio heterogeneity in affecting the wealth distribution in the long run. Combining ...
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Journal of the European Economic Association
(2026),
| Thilo N H Albers, Charlotte Bartels, Moritz Schularick
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While refugee inflows into Germany have typically been relatively moderate in recent decades, specific exogenous political events such as the Yugoslav civil war in the early 1990s, the intensifying of the Syrian civil war around 2015, and the war in Ukraine since 2022, have generated substantial spikes in refugee arrivals, affecting the receiving society in multiple ways. This study examines the possible ...
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Genus
82 (2026), 1, 6
| Elena Ambrosetti, Hans Dietrich
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This study examines whether advances in technology and shifts in the occupational structure have enhanced women's position within the labour market. It answers the following research questions: First, how has the occupational employment structure evolved over the last decades, and how is this related to gender gaps? Second, which factors explain the gender gap and its narrowing over time?We use ...
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International Journal of Manpower
47 (2026), 2, 403–422
| Ronald Bachmann, Myrielle Gonschor
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The energy price crisis following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine exposed the heightened vulnerability of low-income households to rising heating costs, particularly those in energy-inefficient buildings. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this study examines the distributional impact of heating costs across income deciles and evaluates the effectiveness of policy interventions. We ...
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Energy Policy
213 (2026), 115145
| Sophie M. Behr, Merve Kucuk, Maximilian Longmuir, Karsten Neuhoff
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While there is some evidence for changes in personality traits, life satisfaction, and self-esteem as a function of life events, effects have been small and inconsistent across studies. In this preregistered meta-analysis, we summarize the available evidence on personality change in response to life events using data from 44 studies, including 89 samples with a total of 121,187 participants. Results ...
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European Journal of Personality
38 (2024), 3, 544–568
| Janina Larissa Bühler, Ulrich Orth, Wiebke Bleidorn, Elisa Weber, André Kretzschmar, Louisa Scheling, Christopher J. Hopwood
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Cross-country employment differences are concentrated among women, youth, and older individuals. In this paper, we estimate employment, unemployment and labor-force participation flows by age and gender and study their contributions to aggregate employment differences across a large panel of European countries. Employment outflows are the main source of employment variation for prime-age men, whereas ...
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Journal of Monetary Economics
159 (2026), 103929
| Jonathan Créchet, Etienne Lalé, Linas Tarasonis
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The present research examines whether and how well-documented historical changes in resource availability, social embedding, technology, and social norms also manifest in control beliefs?a key psychological marker of individual health and well-being. Drawing on longitudinal data from five waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel (N = 42,158) spanning over 20 years, we analyzed control belief trajectories ...
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European Journal of Personality
(2026), 08902070261454669
| Theresa M. Entringer, Laura Buchinger, Jutta Heckhausen, Nilam Ram, Denis Gerstorf
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Extensive evidence suggests that war-related trauma negatively affects health, yet its long-term and transgenerational effects on psychological and physical adjustment remain poorly understood. This study examines whether individuals who experienced greater war exposure in early childhood—specifically variation in bombardment intensity across German municipalities during the Second World War—show lower, ...
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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
(2026),
| Theresa M. Entringer, Christoph Halbmeier, Laura Buchinger, Anne K. Reitz
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Young people with disability face significant barriers to stable employment. Yet, little is known about how early labor market experiences shape their long-term mental health. This study examines associations between early career insecurity and subsequent mental health trajectories, focusing on disability status as a key axis of inequality. We use nationally representative longitudinal data from the ...
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SSM - Population Health
34 (2026),
| Sophia Fauser, Irma Mooi-Reci, Marissa Shields, Zoe Aitken, Anne Kavanagh