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To ensure sufficient access to healthcare in remote areas, some countries allow physicians to directly dispense prescribed drugs through on-site pharmacies. Depending on the medication prescribed, this may pose a significant financial incentive for physicians to over-prescribe. This study, therefore, explored the effect of on-site pharmacies on antibiotic dispensing in a social health insurance system. ...
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Social Science & Medicine
321 (2023), 115791
| Barbara Stacherl, Anna-Theresa Renner, Daniela Weber
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Experiencing the onset of a chronic disease is a serious health event impacting living conditions and wellbeing. Investigating wellbeing development and its predictors is crucial to understand how individuals adapt to chronic illnesses. This study (i) analyzed the impact of a chronic disease on wellbeing development, and (ii) explored spatial healthcare access as potential moderating factor.Data were ...
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European Journal of Public Health
34 (2024), 1, 29-34
| Barbara Stacherl, Odile Sauzet
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Abstract Do cynical individuals have a stronger desire for power and are they more likely to acquire power at work? The negative consequences of cynicism—for cynics themselves and the people around them—render the examination of these questions particularly important. We first examined the role of cynicism in power motives. Results showed that more cynical individuals have a greater desire for power ...
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British Journal of Psychology
115 (2024), 2, 226-252
| Olga Stavrova, Daniel Ehlebracht, Dongning Ren
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This paper contributes to the literature evaluating the performance of local governments by analyzing the effect of local public expenditures on sports facilities on sports participation in Germany. To this end, we use a new data base containing public expenditures at the municipality level and link this information with individual level data. We form locally weighted averages of expenditures based ...
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Economic Inquiry
61 (2023), 4, 1103-1128
| Carina Steckenleiter, Michael Lechner, Tim Pawlowski, Ute Schüttoff
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Demographers use microsimulation for studying individual life courses and their attributes; events are specified to be the result of stochastic processes based on predetermined probabilistic rules. In this study, we developed and validated a microsimulation model to reconstruct individual’s life courses and their interactions in different regions of the European Union. One of the main objectives of ...
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2023,
| Claudio Bosco, Sabine Zinn, Daniela Ghio, Maurizio Teobaldelli, Stefano Maria Iacus
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Climate movements have gained momentum in recent years, aiming to create public awareness of the consequences of climate change through salient climate protests. This paper investigates whether concerns about climate change increase following demonstrative protests and confrontational acts of civil disobedience. Leveraging individual-level survey panel data from Germany, we exploit exogenous variations ...
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Nature Communications
15 (2024), 1, 2916
| Johannes Brehm, Henri Gruhl
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Research on reconciling family and employment debates if maternal part-time employment works as ‘stepping stone’ to full-time employment or as gateway to a long-term ‘mommy track’. We analyse how mothers’ transition from part-time to full-time employment is shaped by changing reconciliation legislations and how this is moderated by reconciliation-relevant factors like individual behaviours and macro ...
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Journal of European Social Policy
34 (2024), 3, 354-369
| Uta Brehm, Nadja Milewski
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Did the COVID-19 pandemic crowd out environmental concerns, as one might expect if “pools of worry” were finite or “moral bandwidth” was limited? We use Chancellor Angela Merkel’s address to the German nation on 18 March 2020 as the threshold in a regression discontinuity in time (RDiT) to evaluate the effects of an increase in COVID-based economic and health concerns on the climate and environmental ...
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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
228 (2024), 106753
| Julia Berazneva, Daniel Graeber, Michelle McCauley, Sabine Zinn, Peter Hans Matthews
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Extracurricular activities in adolescence are associated with adolescents’ cognitive skills. While participation in extracurricular activities is stratified, it is unclear whether all adolescents benefit from such activities to the same extent. This study explores whether participation in extracurricular activities functions as an equalizer or reinforcer of inequalities by examining how different types ...
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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
90 (2024), April 2024, 100895
| Henriette Bering, Wiebke Schulz
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Refugees have limited health care entitlements during the asylum process. In February 2024, the maximum length of this exclusion period was increased from 18 to 36 months. This increase may double the actual waiting time, which is currently already more than one year, as data from the Socio-Economic Panel show. This particularly affects refugees with a low level of education and little knowledge of ...
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DIW Weekly Report
12/2024 (2024), 97-105
| Louise Biddle