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Sind Politiker risikofreudiger als das Volk? Eine empirische Studie zu Mitgliedern des Deutschen Bundestags

Heß, Moritz; von Scheve, Christian; Schupp, Jürgen; … - 2013

Das Papier geht der Frage nach, ob sich Berufspolitikerinnen und Berufspolitiker in ihren Risikoeinstellungen systematisch von der allgemeinen Bevölkerung unterscheiden. In einer schriftlichen Befragung von Mitgliedern des 17. Deutschen Bundestags wurde Ende 2011 die Risikoeinstellungen...

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Members of German Federal Parliament more risk-loving than general population

Heß, Moritz; von Scheve, Christian; Schupp, Jürgen; … - 2013

The article analyzes the question of whether career politicians differ systematically from the general population in terms of their attitudes toward risk. A written survey of members of the 17th German Bundestag in late 2011 identified their risk attitudes, and the survey data was set in...

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Self-reported satisfaction and the economic crisis of 2007-10: Or how people in the UK and Germany perceive a severe cyclical downturn

Mertens, Antje; Beblo, Miriam - 2013

Self-reported satisfaction measures respond to a great variety of socio-demographic characteristics as well as the job and living environment. In this paper we ask whether the recent financial market crisis has caused a deterioration of satisfaction not only for the unemployed but also for those...

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Natural disaster, policy action, and mental well-being: The case of Fukushima

Goebel, Jan; Krekel, Christian; Tiefenbach, Tim; … - 2013

We study the impact of the Fukushima disaster on people's mental well·being in another industrialized country, more than 5000 miles distant. The meltdown significantly increased environmental concerns by 20% among the German population. Subsequent drastic policy action permanently shut down the...

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What drives academic data sharing?

Fecher, Benedikt; Friesike, Sascha; Hebing, Marcel - 2014

Despite widespread support from policy makers, funding agencies, and scientific journals, academic researchers rarely make their research data available to others. At the same time, data sharing in research is attributed a vast potential for scientific progress. It allows the reproducibility of...

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Culture, spatial diffusion of ideas and their long-lasting imprints: Evidence from Froebel's kindergarten movement

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver - 2014

, measured by historical dialect similarity, to Froebel's birthplace. This result is robust to the inclusion of higher order …

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The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP): Scope, Evolution and Enhancements

Wagner, Gert G.; Frick, Joachim R.; Schupp, Jürgen - 2007

After the introduction in Section 2, we very briefly sketch out current theoretical and empirical developments in the social sciences. In our view, they all point in the same direction: toward the acute and increasing need for multidisciplinary longitudinal data covering a wide range of living...

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Social Deprivation and Exclusion of Immigrants in Germany

Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Sinning, Mathias - 2007

using a conventional definition of the social inclusion index typically applied in the literature, immigrants appear to … economic assimilation of immigrants in Germany. We propose a weighting scheme that weights components of social inclusion by … of social inclusion, we find that immigrants are in fact as "included" as Germans. This result is driven strongly by the …

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Unemployment as a Social Norm in Germany

Clark, Andrew E.; Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen - 2008

This paper investigates the relationship between the subjective well-being of both the employed and unemployed and regional unemployment rates. While employed men suffer from regional unemployment, unemployed men are significantly less negatively affected. This is consistent with a social-norm...

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Measuring Trust: Experiments and Surveys in Contrast and Combination

Naef, Michael; Schupp, Jürgen - 2009

Trust is a concept that has attracted - significant attention in economic theory and research within the last two decades: it has been applied in a number of contexts and has been investigated both as an explanatory and as a dependent variable. In this paper, we explore the questions of what...

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