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Aging, proximity to death, and religiousness

Lechler, Marie; Sunde, Uwe - 2020

Considerable evidence has documented that the elderly are more religious and that religiousness is associated with better health and lower mortality. Yet, little is known about the reverse role of life expectancy or proximity to death, as opposed to age, for religiousness. This paper provides...

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Can education compensate the effect of population aging on macroeconomic performance? : evidence from panel data

Kotschy, Rainer; Sunde, Uwe - 2018

This paper investigates the consequences of population aging and of changes in the education composition of the population for macroeconomic performance. Estimation results from a theoretically founded empirical framework show that aging as well as the education composition of the population...

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Global evidence on economic preferences

Becker, Anke; Dohmen, Thomas; Enke, Benjamin; Falk, Armin; … - 2018

This paper studies the global variation in economic preferences. For this purpose, we present the Global Preference Survey (GPS), an experimentally validated survey dataset of time preference, risk preference, positive and negative reciprocity, altruism, and trust from 80,000 individuals in 76...

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Does demography determine democratic attitudes?

Kotschy, Rainer; Sunde, Uwe - 2022

bloc and in other countries around the world. Additional findings document that demography's effect partly captures …

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The empirics of economic growth over time and across nations : a unified growth perspective

Cervellati, Matteo; Meyerheim, Gerrit; Sunde, Uwe - 2022

This research develops an expanded unified growth theory that incorporates the endogenous accumulation of physical …

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Have preferences become more similar worldwide?

Kotschy, Rainer; Sunde, Uwe - 2023

Recent evidence shows substantial heterogeneity in time, risk, and social preferences across and within populations; yet little is known about the dynamics of preference heterogeneity across generations. We apply a novel identification strategy based on dyadic differences in preferences using...

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Personality traits across the life cycle : disentangling age, period, and cohort effects

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Mena, Gary; Nimczik, Jan Sebastian; … - 2019

Despite the importance for socio-economic outcomes, there is an ongoing debate about the stability of personality traits over the life cycle. By disentangling age, period and cohort influences on personality traits, this paper adds to the existing empirical contributions, which often focus on...

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Potential, prizes and performance : testing tournament theory with professional tennis data

Sunde, Uwe - 2003

This paper tests two hypotheses from the theory of elimination tournaments: (i) that uneven tournaments, where the … contestants are ex ante heterogeneous, entail lower effort exertion; this is a prediction from agency theory that has not been … underlies any agency theory about elimination tournaments, and has been empirically tested in other contexts. The evidence …

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Life expectancy and economic growth: the role of the demographic transition

Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2009

the role of the econometric specification. We present a simple theory of the economic and demographic transition where … individuals' education and fertility decisions depend on their life expectancy. The theory predicts that before the demographic …

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Unobserved Bilateral Search on the Labor Market: A Theory-Based Correction for a Common Flaw in Empirical Matching Studies

Sunde, Uwe - 2002

This paper develops a model of equilibrium unemployment with (unobservable) endogenous on-the-job search and (partly unobservable) endogenous search behavior by firms. The model allows to analyze crowding-out of unemployed job seekers by endogenous on-the job search of employees, and the...

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