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Living space needs to be heated in winter and partially cooled in summer and the construction of new buildings requires high amounts of energy and materials. Total living space is increasing, driven by continuously rising average per-capita spaces. The reasons for this are numerous and include the trend to smaller households who live in larger flats, increasing numbers of single-family houses, elderly ...
In:
eceee Summer Study Proceedings
(2024), 979-989
| Johannes Thema, Luisa Cordroch, Johannes Parschau, Georg Graser, Frauke Wiese
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We investigate the impact of the Berlin Wall's fall on West Berliners' salaries using the Synthetic Control Method and regional-level data (NUTS-2) from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Our study shows that the collapse of the Berlin Wall led to a sudden stagnation in salaries for West Berliners, compared to a scenario where the Wall had remained intact.
In:
Applied Economics Letters
(online first) (2024), 1-4
| Sergi Urzay-Gómez
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Investing in entrepreneurship may be costly, and therefore risky, and entrepreneurship is also an economic endeavor that is highly dependent on entrepreneurial ability and risk appetite. In this study, data from 669 famers in southwest China were used as the sample, and we used three different methods to measure farmers’ risk aversion level, including DOSPRET (Domain-Specific Risk-Taking), SOEP (Simple ...
In:
Agriculture
14 (2024), 2, 209
| Tong Wang, Jiaxuan Liu, Hongyu Zhu, Yuansheng Jiang
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Hypothetical bias is the discrepancy between stated preferences and actual choices. As such, it is one of the key issues regarding the use of hypothetical survey methods and therefore highly relevant for economists in understanding human behavior and refining policy interventions. Hypothetical survey methods are often used to inform our view on decision making in health and financial settings. However, ...
Essen:
RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung,
2024,
(Ruhr Economic Papers, No. 1091)
| Anna Werbeck
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This paper proposes IV-based estimators for the semiparametric distribution regression model in the presence of an endogenous regressor, which are based on an extension of IV probit estimators and the idea of control functions. We discuss the causal interpretation of the estimators and two methods (monotone rearrangement and isotonic regression) to ensure a monotonically increasing distribution function. ...
In:
Labour Economics
90 (2024), 102565
| Dominik Wied
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Self-control is a personality dimension that is associated with better physical health and a longer lifespan. Here, we examined (1) whether self-control is associated with buccal and saliva DNA-methylation (DNAm) measures of biological aging quantified in children, adolescents, and adults, and (2) whether biological aging measured in buccal DNAm is associated with self-reported health. Following preregistered ...
In:
Clinical Epigenetics
16 (2024), 1, 22
| Y. E. Willems, A. deSteiguer, P. T. Tanksley, L. Vinnik, D. Fraemke, A. Okbay, D. Richter, G. G. Wagner, R. Hertwig, P. Koellinger, E. M. Tucker-Drob, K. P. Harden, Laurel Raffington
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The Big Five personality traits predict many important life outcomes. These traits, although relatively stable, are also open to change across time. However, whether these changes likewise predict a wide range of life outcomes has yet to be rigorously tested. This has implications for the types of processes linking trait levels and changes with future outcomes: distal, cumulative processes versus more ...
In:
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
125 (2023), 6, 1495-1518
| Amanda J. Wright, Joshua J. Jackson
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Decades of research have identified average patterns of normative personality development across the lifespan. However, it is unclear how well these correspond to trajectories of individual development. Past work beyond general personality development might suggest these average patterns are oversimplifications, necessitating novel examinations of how personality develops and consideration of new individual ...
In:
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
(2024),
| Amanda J. Wright, Joshua J. Jackson
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Germany played a key role as receiving country during the so-called refugee and displacement crisis with about 5 million asylum seekers arriving in the EU between 2014 and 2020. It is well known that asylum seekers and refugees (ASRs) have a high burden of disease and are particularly prone to mental disorders such as trauma, stress-related and affective disorders. Not much is known about the determinants ...
In:
BMC Public Health
24 (2024), 1, 1965
| Thomas Grochtdreis, Hans-Helmut König, Judith Dams
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It is known that the health-care service utilization in primary care of persons with a direct migration background is lower compared to non-migrants. However, potential migration-related determinants of health-care service utilization are not known. Therefore, this study aimed to analyze the associations between health-care service utilization and migration-related characteristics of persons with a ...
In:
The European Journal of Health Economics
26 (2025), 2, 313–323
| Thomas Grochtdreis, Hans-Helmut König, Judith Dams