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Wages and ageing : is there evidence for the "inverse-U profile"?

Myck, Michał (contributor) - 2007

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003577477

Age effects and heuristics in decision making

Besedeš, Tibor; Deck, Cary A.; Sarangi, Sudipta - 2010

Using controlled experiments, we examine how individuals make choices when faced with multiple options. Choice tasks are designed to mimic the selection of health insurance, prescription drug, or retirement savings plans. In our experiment, available options can be objectively ranked allowing us...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009261369

So far so good : age, happiness, and relative income

FitzRoy, Felix R.; Nolan, Michael A.; Steinhardt, Max … - 2011

In a simple 2-period model of relative income under uncertainty, higher comparison income for the younger cohort can signal higher or lower expected lifetime relative income, and hence either increase or decrease well-being. With data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and the British...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009389096

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003091928

Personality maturation and personality relaxation: differences of the Big Five personality traits in the years around the beginning and ending of working life

Asselmann, Eva; Specht, Jule - 2021

Objective: At work, people are confronted with clear behavioral expectations. In line with the Social Investment Principle, the beginning and ending of working life might thus promote changes in personality traits that are relevant at work (e.g., Conscientiousness). Method: Based on the data...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012643683

Older or wealthier? : the impact of age adjustments on the wealth inequality ranking of countries

Almås, Ingvild; Mogstady, Magne - 2009

Differences in individual wealth holdings are widely viewed as a driving force of economic inequality. However, as this finding relies on cross-section data, we may confuse older with wealthier. We propose a new method to adjust for age effects in cross-sections, which eliminates transitory...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635021

Accounting for poverty differences between the United States, Great Britain, and Germany

Biewen, Martin; Jenkins, Stephen - 2002 - This version: 17 July 2002

We propose a framework for comparing the relationship between poverty and personal characteristics across countries (or across years), and use it to compare levels and patterns of relative poverty in the USA, Great Britain and Germany during the 1990s. The higher aggregate poverty rates in the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437003

Reducing binge drinking? : the effect of a ban on late-night off-premise alcohol sales on alcohol-related hospital stays in Germany

Marcus, Jan; Siedler, Thomas - 2015

Excessive alcohol consumption among young people is a major public health concern. On March 1, 2010, the German state … hospitalizations during the years 2007-2011 in Germany in order to evaluate the short-term impact of this policy on alcohol …-related hospitalizations. Applying difference-in-differences methods, we find that the policy change reduces alcohol-related hospitalizations …

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