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How Natural Disasters Can Affect Environmental Concerns, Risk Aversion, and Even Politics : Evidence from Fukushima and Three European Countries

Goebel, Jan; Krekel, Christian; Tiefenbach, Tim; … - 2015

We study the impact of the Fukushima disaster on environmental concerns, well-being, risk aversion, and political preferences in Germany, Switzerland, and the UK. In these countries, overall life satisfaction did not significantly decrease, but the disaster significantly increased environmental...

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Can Raising Instructional Time Crowd Out Student Pro-Social Behaviour? Evidence from Germany

Krekel, Christian - 2018

We study whether raising instructional time can crowd out student pro-social behaviour. To this end, we exploit a large educational reform in Germany that has raised weekly instructional time for high school students by 12.5% as a quasi-natural experiment. We find that this rise has a negative...

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The Greener, the Happier? The Effects of Urban Green and Abandoned Areas on Residential Well-Being

Krekel, Christian; Kolbe, Jens; Wüstemann, Henry - 2015

, using panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the time period between 2000 and 2012 and cross …

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Sowing the Wind and Reaping the Whirlwind? The Effect of Wind Turbines on Residential Well-Being

Krekel, Christian; Zerrahn, Alexander - 2015

We investigate the effect of the physical presence of wind turbines on residential well-being in Germany, using panel … data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and a unique novel panel data set on more than 20,000 wind turbines for … landscape aesthetics. Our unique novel panel data set on wind turbines, which was collected at the regional level, includes …

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Deindustrialization and the Polarization of Household Incomes : The Example of Urban Agglomerations in Germany

Goebel, Jan - 2015

of major cities. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we find an increasing polarization of household …

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Where People Live and Die Makes a Difference : Individual and Geographic Disparities in Well-Being Progression at the End of Life

Gerstorf, Denis; Ram, Nilam; Goebel, Jan; Schupp, Jürgen; … - 2010

-Economic Panel Study (N = 3,427; age at death: 18 to 101 years). Results indicate steep declines in well-being with impending death …

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Exploring the Linkage of Spatial Indicators from Remote Sensing Data with Survey Data – The Case of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and 3D City Models

Goebel, Jan; Wurm, Michael; Wagner, Gert G. - 2010

This paper demonstrates the spatial evaluation of survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study using …

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Long-Term Absenteeism and Moral Hazard - Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2010

Sick leave payments represent a significant portion of public health expenditures and labor costs. Reductions in replacement levels are a commonly used instrument to tackle moral hazard and to increase the efficiency of the health insurance market. In Germany's Statutory Health Insurance (SHI)...

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Introducing Risk Adjustment and Free Health Plan Choice in Employer-Based Health Insurance : Evidence from Germany

Pilny, Adam - 2017

cumulative switching rates over time. Our main findings are based on representative enrollee panel data linked to administrative …

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How Health Plan Enrollees Value Prices Relative to Supplemental Benefits and Service Quality

Bünnings, Christian - 2015

decision to choose a health plan. We link representative German SOEP panel data from 2007 to 2010 to (i) health plan service …

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