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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
Following a landmark court ruling in 2005, more than half of Germany’s universities started charging tuition fees, which were later abolished in a staggered manner. We exploit the fact that even students who were already enrolled had to start paying fees. We show that fees increase study effort and degree completion among these students. However, fees also decrease first-time university enrollment ...
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European Economic Review
154 (2023), 104431, 28 S.
| Jan Bietenbeck, Andreas Leibing, Jan Marcus, Felix Weinhardt
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
We examine changes in the well-being of family caregivers during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the SOEP-CoV study. The COVID-19 pandemic posed an extraordinary challenge for family caregivers, as care recipients are a high-risk group requiring special protection, and professional care services were severely cut back. ...
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European Journal of Ageing
20 (2023), 1, 15, 11 S.
| Katja Möhring, Sabine Zinn, Ulrike Ehrlich
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Workshop
22.05.2023| Florin Bilbiie, Maximilian Weiß, Federica Romei, Xavier Ragot, Leanne Nam, Alisdair McKay, Hannah Magdalena Seidl, Fabian Seyrich
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Graduate Center Masterclasses
The course provides participants with the tools to develop and analyze business cycle models with heterogenous agents. This class of models has become the new standard in the business cycle literature and allows to analyze the interaction of the business cycle and the distribution of consumption, income, and wealth.
The focus of the course is on numerical methods. Coding exercises in class are an...
12.07.2023| Ralph Lütticke
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Graduate Center Short Course
Objectives
Students will study models of transitions and durations, and learn how to estimate these using realworld data.
Outline
This course is an introduction to modelling transitions into a state of interest (such as the transition into employment from unemployment) and durations (such as unemployment, survival of patients after medical treatment or firms after a financial crash). We...
30.10.2023| Christian Schluter
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
This research tests the unique predictions of three different theoretical perspectives on the self-esteem benefits of religiosity: the religiosity-as-a-personal-relationship-with-a-higher-power perspective, the religiosity-as-a-resource perspective, and the religiosity-as-social-value perspective. To do so, we used random-intercept cross-lagged panel models and examined the between- and within-person ...
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Social Psychological and Personality Science
im Ersch. (2022)
| Theresa Entringer, Madeline R. Lenhausen, Christopher J. Hopwood, Wiebke Bleidorn
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
This paper examines the drivers of Algeria's energy transformation as well as the cross-cutting issues and challenges in the transformation process. It suggests a framework that accelerates sustainable transformation based on the ideologies of systemic reasoning. Interviews were conducted with 20 energy experts in Algeria, along with a content analysis of policy documents, reports, and previous studies. ...
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Euro-Mediterranean Journal for Environmental Integration
8 (2023), S. 365–379
| Khadidja Sakhraoui, Albert K. Awopone, Christian von Hirschhausen, Noara Kebir, Redha Agadi
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Infographic
17.05.2023
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DIW Weekly Report 19/20 / 2023
The majority of refugee women who arrived in Germany during the peak of the refugee crisis between 2013 and 2019 are unemployed. Using data from the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees, this study investigates the contributing factors for refugee women’s limited labor market participation. Results show that a combination of low levels of education compared to the German population, slow progress in language ...
2023| Adriana Cardozo Silva
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
Using data from the European Social Survey, we examine income fairness evaluations of 17,605 respondents from 28 countries. Respondents evaluated the fairness of their own incomes as well as the fairness of the incomes of the top and bottom income deciles in their countries. Depicted on a single graph, these income fairness evaluations take on a Z-shaped form, which we call the "inequity Z". The inequity ...
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Socius
(2023), 9, S. 1-3
| Fabian Kalleitner, Sandra Bohmann