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Employed but still unhappy? : on the relevance of the social work norm

Chadi, Adrian - 2011

In the modern welfare state, people who cannot make a living usually receive financial assistance from public funds. Accordingly, the so-called social work norm against living off other people is violated, which may be the reason why the unemployed are so unhappy. If so, however, labour market...

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One last puff? : public smoking bans and smoking behavior

Anger, Silke; Kvasnicka, Michael; Siedler, Thomas - 2010

, state-level smoking bans were gradually introduced in all of Germany's sixteen federal states. We exploit this variation in …-in-differences estimates show thatthe introduction of smoke-free legislation in Germany did not change average smoking behavior within the …

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Pollution exposure and infant health : evidence from Germany

Coneus, Katja; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2010

years in Germany. We use representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), combined with five air pollution …

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Spite and cognitive skills in preschoolers

Bügelmayer, Elisabeth; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2011

Although spiteful preferences play a crucial role in the development of human large-scale cooperation, there is little evidence on spiteful behavior and its determinants in children. We investigate the relationship between children's cognitive skills and spiteful behavior in a sample of 214...

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Regional unemployment and norm-induced effects on life satisfaction

Chadi, Adrian - 2011

While rising unemployment generally reduces people's happiness, researchers argue that there is a compensating social-norm effect for the unemployed individual, who might suffer less when it is more common to be unemployed. This empirical study, however, rejects this thesis for German panel data...

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How job changes affect people's lives : evidence from subjective well-being data

Chadi, Adrian; Hetschkeo, Clemens - 2015

For representative German panel data, we document that voluntary job switching is associated with higher levels of life satisfaction, though only for some time, whereas forced job changes do not affect life satisfaction clearly. Using plant closures as an exogenous trigger of switching to a new...

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The protestant fiscal ethic : religious confession and Euro skepticism in Germany

Chadi, Adrian; Krapf, Matthias - 2015

countries with Protestant majorities were able to avoid fiscal problems. Survey data show that, within Germany, views on theeuro …

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Familien in Deutschland : FiD; enhancing research on families in Germany

Schröder, Mathis; Siegers, Rainer; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2013

Deutschland (FiD)" was initiated. FiD is one of the "related studies" of the SOEP, i.e. a data collection effort closely related …

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The impact of education on personality : evidence from a German high school reform

Dahmann, Sarah; Anger, Silke - 2014

traits using a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment. Starting in 2001 …, academic-track high school (Gymnasium) was reduced from nine to eight years in most of Germany's federal states, leaving the … point to important heterogeneous effects. In addition to differences between East and West Germany, we find that male …

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Parental leave benefits and breastfeeding in Germany : effects of the 2007 reform

Kottwitz, Anita; Oppermann, Anja; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2014

this conflict. In 2007, Germany put into effect a new parental leave benefit (Elterngeld). The related reform increased the … duration in Germany. We draw on representative survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) from 2002 through …

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