We estimate the effect of parental separation on the risk and trust attitudes of German adolescents using a large household survey dataset, which allows us to match respondents to their siblings and parents. Our results indicate that adolescents from separated families are less trusting but have the same risk tolerance as adolescents from non-separated families, even after conditioning on the attitudes ...
Flexibly using different emotion-regulation (ER) strategies in different situational contexts, such as domains, has been argued to promote effective emotion regulation. Additionally, emotion regulation processes may change with age as narrowing time horizons shift emotion-regulation preferences. The purpose of the present study was to examine the occurrence and effectiveness of flexible emotion regulation ...
A large body of empirical evidence has accumulated showing that the experience of old age is “younger,” more “agentic,” and “happier” than ever before. However, it is not yet known whether historical improvements in well-being, control beliefs, cognitive functioning, and other outcomes generalize to individuals’ views on their own aging process. To examine historical changes in such views on aging, ...
Welche Rolle spielen Oma und Opa für die Betreuung von Kindern in Deutschland? Und hat sich daran im Zuge des Kita-Ausbaus der vergangenen Jahres etwas geändert? Diesen und vielen weiteren Fragen in diesem Zusammenhang ist ein Forschungsprojekt des Bundesinstituts für Bevölkerungsforschung (BiB) und des Deutschen Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin) in den vergangenen ...
Studie analysiert Belastungsempfinden und Zufriedenheit von Erzieherinnen – Vielen fehlt es an monetärer, aber auch an nichtmonetärer Anerkennung – Attraktivitätsoffensive für Erzieherberuf sollte dringend ausgebaut werden Acht von zehn Erzieherinnen in Deutschland fühlen sich durch ein als unangemessen empfundenes Gehalt belastet. Auch zu viel Zeitdruck und ein ...
Individuals typically traverse several life phases before forming a family. We analyze whether changing the duration of one of these phases, the education phase, affects the timing of marriage and childbearing. For this purpose, we exploit the introduction of short school years (SSYs) in Germany in 1966–1967, which compressed the education phase without affecting the curriculum. Based on difference-in-differences ...
Background: The transition to parenthood is characterized by far-reaching changes in life. However, little prospective-longitudinal evidence from general population samples exists on changes of general physical and mental health in the years around the birth of a child among mothers and fathers. Methods: Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), this study examined continuous and ...
Economists increasingly recognise the importance of personality traits for socio-economic outcomes, but little is known about the stability of these traits over the life cycle. Existing empirical contributions typically focus on age patterns and disregard cohort and period influences. This paper contributes novel evidence for the separability of age, period, and cohort effects for a broad range of personality ...