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Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe; … - 2005

This paper presents new evidence on the distribution of risk attitudes in the population, using a novel set of survey questions and a representative sample of roughly 22,000 individuals living in Germany. Using a question that asks about willingness to take risks on an 11-point scale, we find...

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A nation-wide laboratory : Examining trust and trustworthiness by integrating behavioral experiments into representative surveys

Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; von Rosenbladt, Bernhard; … - 2002

the power of our approach with the analysis of trust and trustworthiness in Germany by combining representative survey … elicit people?s trust correlate well with behaviorally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 55, highly … favoring the Social Democratic Party or the Christian Democratic Party exhibit more trust. People above the age of 65 and those …

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Worries across time and a ge in Germany: Bringing together open- and close-ended questions

Rohrer, Julia M.; Bruemmer, Martin; Schupp, Jürgen; … - 2017

We investigate how worries in Germany change across time and age, drawing on both closed-ended questions (which typically list a number of worry items) and open-ended questions answered in text format. We find that relevant world events influence worries. For example, worries about peace peaked...

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Die Messung der Greifkraft als objektives Gesundheitsmaß in sozialwissenschaftlichen Bevölkerungsumfragen

Hank, Karsten; Jürges, Hendrik; Schupp, Jürgen; … - 2006

Deutschland. Im Mittelpunkt der vorliegenden Untersuchung stehen dabei ältere Personen im Alter 50+. Die Erfahrungen, die in …

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What Causes Cross-industry Differences of Technical Efficiency? An Empirical Investigation

Fritsch, Michael; Stephan, Andreas - 2004

Using micro-level panel data of about 35,000 firms from the German Cost Structure Census, we analyze the differences of technical efficiency across industries. Technical efficiency is estimated by firms? fixed effects. One striking result is that the distribution of technical efficiency across...

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What drives the productive efficiency of a firm? The importance of industry, location, R&D, and size

Badunenko, Oleg; Fritsch, Michael; Stephan, Andreas - 2008

This paper investigates the factors that explain the level and dynamics of manufacturing firm productive efficiency. In our empirical analysis, we use a unique sample of about 39,000 firms in 256 industries from the German Cost Structure Census over the years 1992-2005. We estimate the...

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Befragungsergebnisse zur Teilzeitarbeit in der DDR im Juni 1990

Schupp, Jürgen - 1991

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Das Sozio-ökonomische Panel: Methoden der Datenproduktion und Aufarbeitung im Längsschnitt

Wagner, Gert G.; Schupp, Jürgen; Rendtel, Ulrich - 1991

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Das Zuwanderer-Problem in Wiederholungsbefragungen am Beispiel des sozio-ökonomischen Panels (SOEP)

Schulz, Erika; Rendtel, Ulrich; Schupp, Jürgen; … - 1995

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Does quality make a difference? Employment effects of high- and low-quality start-ups

Fritsch, Michael; Schroeter, Alexandra - 2011

This paper investigates the impact of new firms' quality on the magnitude of their employment effects. Our results clearly show that the quality of start-ups, measured by their affiliation with sectors and innovative industries, strongly influences the direct and the overall employment...

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