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Does the Internet undermine social capital or facilitate inter-personal and civic engagement in the real world? Merging … unique telecommunication data with geo-coded German individual-level data, we investigate how broadband Internet affects …-owned telecommunication provider in the 1990s that still hinders broadband Internet access for many households. We find no evidence that the …
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Demographic change causes an undersupply of financial old age benefits within the statutory pay-as-you-go pension system in Germany. Therefore, the provision of occupational as well as private pensions has to be enhanced. However, there seems to be an undersupply of occupational pension...
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disrupts our sleep with detrimental effects on our health and cognitive performance. High-speed Internet promotes the use of … electronic devices, video games and Internet addiction (e.g., online games and cyberloafing). Exposure to artificial light from … relationship between technology use near bedtime and sleep. This paper studies the causal effects of access to high-speed Internet …
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The spread of high-speed Internet epitomizes the digital revolution, affecting several aspects of our life. Using … German panel data, we test whether the availability of broadband Internet influences fertility choices in a low …. (2014) to obtain causal estimates of the impact of broadband on fertility. We find positive effects of highspeed Internet …
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This research examines the strength of people's ties with close neighbours and the sensitivity thereof to changes in residential mobility, access to modes of public and private transport, and changes in the availability of modern communications technologies using the German Socio-economic Panel...
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The affordability of housing has become a major topic of discussion in Germany among both social scientists and the public at large. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we provide rent-income ratios over more than two decades and show how they change with households’...
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It is still widely debated how non-cognitive skills can be affected by policy intervention. For example, universal music education programs are becoming increasingly popular among policy makers in Germany and other developed countries. These are intended to give children from poor families the...
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Nationally representative panel survey data for Germany and Australia are used to investigate the impact of working-time mismatches (i.e., differences between actual and desired work hours) on mental health, as measured by the Mental Component Summary Score from the SF-12. Fixed effects and...
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This paper estimates the percentage of students who do not take up their federal need-based student financial aid entitlements and sheds light on determinants of this behavior. Against the background that educational mobility in Germany is low although extensive student financial aid for needy...
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This study analyzes the importance of parental socialization on the development of children’s far right-wing preferences and attitudes towards immigration. Using longitudinal data from Germany, our intergenerational estimates suggest that the strongest and most important predictor for young...
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