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Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we show that single women in East Germany are significantly more likely to give birth to a child than single women in West Germany. This applies to both planned and unplanned births. Our analysis provides no evidence that the difference...
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Previous international research has shown that women are more risk averse than men. This gives rise to the question whether the gender gap in risk attitudes is shaped by the social environment. We address this question by examining risk attitudes among East and West Germans. Originated from...
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, finding a greater prevalence of group discussion used in schools positively affects students’ life satisfaction and …-girl schools. These findings are based on a sample from the 2015 PISA which includes more than 35 thousand students from … approximately 1500 schools in 14 countries or regions. We perform regressions of student life satisfaction on the prevalence of …
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expectations and norms. Parental gender stereotypes are shown to strongly decrease student wellbeing in China. Students are …
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Most of the studies on subjective well-being focus on the determinants of absolute life satisfaction or happiness …
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the expense of others. These differences in life satisfaction and other attitudes and values persisted despite the fact …
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results show that students attending vocational schools perform significantly worse than those in general schools, except in … Portugal. Considering only general school students, the differences between big and small cities are not statistically … significant, while among students in vocational schools, those in a small city tend to perform better than those in a big city …
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greater for students in schools that faced relatively longer closures, boys, immigrants, and disadvantaged students …
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decades for Russia. We found no adaption to vulnerability for life satisfaction and subjective wealth, with longer … satisfaction with own economic conditions, work contract, job, pay, and career. Some evidence indicates that despite little … differences between urban and rural areas with life satisfaction, rural areas exhibit a stronger lack of adaptation for subjective …
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We propose a measure of well-being efficiency to assess countries' ability to transform inputs into subjective well-being (Cantril ladder). We use the six inputs (real GDP per capita, healthy life expectancy, social support, freedom of choice, absence of corruption, and generosity) identified in...
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