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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276356
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Choices which change life satisfaction: Revising SWB theory to account for change
Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud; Wagner, Gert G. - 2010
Using data from the long-running German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984-2008, this paper analyses the effects of individual preferences and choices on subjective well-being (SWB). It is shown that preferences and choices relating to life goals/values, partner's personality, hours of work,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271354
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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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The Dynamics of Child Poverty: Britain and Germany Compared
Jenkins, Stephen P.; Schluter, Christian; Wagner, Gert G. - 2000
Wir vergleichen die Muster der Armutsdynamik bei Kindern in Großbritannien und Deutschland anhand der Daten der British … Household Panel Survey und des Sozio-ökonomischen Panels für den Zeitraum 1992-1997. Im Vergleich zu Deutschland ist in … allem Kinder in Alleinerziehenden-Haushalten und Haushalten mit nicht-erwerbstätigem Haushaltsvorstand dauerhaft arm …
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A forgotten issue: distributional effects of day care subsidies in Germany
Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Spieß, Christa Katharina; … - 2000
bedürfen. Wie in einigen anderen europäischen Staaten werden auch in Deutschland bestimmte Anbieter von … Kindertageseinrichtungen öffentlich gefördert bzw. die Kommunen betreiben selbst Kindertageseinrichtungen. Damit kommen den Eltern, deren … Kinder Kindertageseinrichtungen besuchen, indirekt öffentliche Gelder zu, gleichwohl sie über Elternbeiträge einen geringen …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277055
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Identification, Characteristics and Impact of Faked Interviews in Surveys : An analysis by means of genuine fakes in the raw data of SOEP
Wagner, Gert G.; Schraepler, Joerg-Peter - 2003
To the best of our knowledge, most of the few methodological studies which analyze the impact of faked interviews on survey results are based on 'artificial fakes' generated by project students in a 'laboratory environment'. In contrast, panel data provide a unique opportunity to identify data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260714
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Top-down vs. bottom-up: The long-term impact of government ideology and personal experience on values
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2013
This paper studies the long-term impact of societal socialization on values using the example of doping behavior in sports. We apply the German Reunification Approach to the microcosm of Berlin and exploit its 40-year long division into a capitalist and a communist sector. We deliberately chose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292683
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Flipping journals to open: Rethinking publishing infrastructure
Fecher, Benedikt; Wagner, Gert G. - 2015
Open access means that research outputs, such as articles and data, are free of restrictions on access and free of restrictions on use. In the light of recent market developments in academic publishing, we argue in this essay that the discourse about open access must include a discussion about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415295
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Zur Geschichte des "arbeitnehmernah" und "keynesianisch" geltenden Deutschen Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) seit den 50er Jahren
Wagner, Gert G. - 2023
Für das im Jahr 2025 stattfindende 100-jährige Jubiläum des DIW Berlin und dessen Geschichte ist die hier vorgelegte Dokumentation eines 1999 geführten Gesprächs zwischen den ehemaligen DIW-Abteilungsleitern Fritz Franzmeyer und Reinhard Pohl einerseits und Gert G. Wagner andererseits von...
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