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Previous work found that laboratory lotteries used to reveal people’s risk preferences are less stable and predictive of realworld risk taking than survey-based stated preferences. How can stated preferences, often criticized as “cheap talk,” be so informative? Together with Max Planck Fellow Gert G. Wagner, researchers from the Center for Adaptive Rationality have investigated this question in a study ...
Berlin:
Max Planck Institute for Human Development,
2023,
(Spotlight 2023 Research Report Magazine)
| o.V.
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This paper examines the effects of the 2013 flood disaster in East Germany on subjective wellbeing. Merging geo-spatial flood data with longitudinal data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we use a panel event study design for the analysis. Our results show that those affected by the flood report a significant life satisfaction drop of 0.17 points on an 11-point scale, which is equivalent to a 2.5% ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2025,
(SOEPpapers 1224)
| Sachintha Fernando, Katharina Kolb, Christoph Wunder
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Previous research finds that recent immigrants are healthier than the native-born, while more established immigrants exhibit worse health, suggesting a process of unhealthy assimilation. However, previous literature is mostly based on cross-sectional data or on longitudinal analyses similarly failing to disentangle individual-level variation from between-individual confounding. Moreover, previous longitudinal ...
In:
Social Science & Medicine
351 (2024), June 2024, 116976
| Alessandro Ferrara, Carla Grindel, Claudia Brunori
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Personal transfers as part of remittances are becoming increasingly relevant due to growing migration movements influenced by rising income inequalities, political conflicts and increasing environmental challenges. Their impact on countries´economies call for reliable estimations to be used in policy decision making and economic analysis. After a revision of recent demographic changes in Germany, evidence ...
In:
Bank for International Settlements ,
External statistics in a fragmented and uncertain world
Bank for International Settlements
| Joerg Feuerhake, Maria Cobián
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Prior research has identified that school absences harm children's academic achievement. However, this literature is focused on brief periods or single school years and does not consistently account for the dynamic nature of absences across multiple school years. This study examined dynamic trajectories of children's authorised and unauthorised absences throughout their compulsory school ...
In:
PLOS ONE
19 (2024), 8, e0306716
| Jascha Dräger, Markus Klein, Edward M. Sosu
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This study aims to expand knowledge on the nexus between religious attitudes and entrepreneurship performance. Using an international sample of 1,162 European youth entrepreneurs collected in 2016 in eleven countries, we test the increasing effect of spiritual capital on business performance and its heterogeneity across religions. The results from the multivariate regression analyses show only modest ...
In:
Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship
36 (2024), 6, 879-897
| Ondřej Dvouletý
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Analyses of income inequality across households crucially depend on equivalence scales. They define income increments necessary to keep a household’s living standard constant as it is joined by additional adults or children. Such scales have frequently been estimated using income satisfaction data, yet under the assumption that household income, size and structure are exogenous. The present paper is ...
2024,
| Susanne Elisabeth Elsas, Melanie Borah
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This chapter provides the first extensive overview of mental health in Germany since reunification. Relying on data from the Socio-Economic Panel, an annual, representative panel study running since 1984 (in East Germany since 1990), this chapter reports the prevalence of mental health conditions in West and East Germany across 30 years. Specifically, the data provides insights into life satisfaction, ...
In:
Ayline Heller, Peter Schmidt ,
Thirty Years After the Berlin Wall
London: Routledge
25-51
| Theresa Entringer, Laura Buchinger, Lisa Güttschow
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Objectives: Understanding how social categories like gender, migration background, lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender (LGBT) status, education, and their intersections affect health outcomes is crucial. Challenges include avoiding stereotypes and fairly assessing health outcomes. This paper aims to demonstrate how to analyze these aspects. Study Design and Setting: The study used data from N = 19,994 ...
In:
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
173 (2024), 111446
| Michael Erhart, Doreen Müller, Paul Gellert, Julie L. O'Sullivan
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Early life course conditions and the social origin of families frequently influence the inequalities people experience in adulthood. The transition from education to work is a challenging period during which adolescents make their first employment-related choices and establish the course of their careers. Future expectations guide adolescents’ employment-related choices and are assumed to influence ...
In:
Advances in Life Course Research
61 (2024), 100629
| Frederike Esche, Petra Böhnke