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Households’ Financial Fragility During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany

Cziriak, Marius - 2023

I examine the financial fragility of German households during the second wave of COVID-19 infections in the winter of 2020/21 by analyzing the households’ ability to come up with EUR 2,000 within one month. About one in three households reports being unable to cover an unexpected expense of...

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Emotions and risk attitudes

Meier, Armando N. - 2021

reasons for this instability. I examine whether variation in people's emotions over time predicts changes in risk attitudes …. Using a large panel data set, I identify happiness, anger, and fear as significant correlates of within-person changes in … parent or child further confirms a large relationship between emotions and risk attitudes. …

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The Effect of Unemployment on Noncognitive Skills

Kleinjans, Kristin J. - 2020

Unemployment results in lower levels of cognitive skills and has long-term effects on health and economic well-being. In this paper, I show that unemployment also has negative effects on noncognitive skills, at least in the short term. Using a sample of Germans born between 1945 and 1995, I...

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The Effect of the Fall of the Berlin Wall on Children’s Noncognitive Skills

Kleinjans, Kristin J. - 2020

The noncognitive skill of conscientiousness has been linked to favorable labor market and health outcomes. But how is conscientiousness affected by events that happen in childhood? We investigate the effects of negative parental selection and economic and social upheaval on conscientiousness in...

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The predictive power of self-control for life outcomes

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Dahmann, Sarah Christina; … - 2021

This study investigates the predictive power of self-control for individuals and their children using population representative data. We use the well-established Brief Self-Control Scale to demonstrate that people's trait self-control is highly predictive of their life outcomes. Higher...

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Corona and the stability of personal traits and preferences : evidence from Germany

Frondel, Manuel; Osberghaus, Daniel; Sommer, Stephan - 2021

Based on panel data on around 5,500 German households, this paper analyzes whether the experience of financial losses due to the Corona pandemic has affected three kinds of personal traits and preferences: the willingness to take risks, patience, and the locus of control. Our empirical results...

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Corona and the stability of personal traits and preferences : evidence from Germany

Frondel, Manuel; Osberghaus, Daniel; Sommer, Stephan - 2021

Based on panel data on around 5,500 German household heads originating from four years, this paper analyzes whether the experience of financial losses due to the Corona pandemic has affected three kinds of personal traits and preferences: the willingness to take risks, patience, and the locus of...

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Social capital and the spread of Covid-19 : insights from European countries

Bartscher, Alina Kristin; Seitz, Sebastian; Slotwinski, … - 2020

We explore the role of social capital in the spread of the recent Covid-19 pandemic in independent analyses for Austria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. We exploit within-country variation in social capital and Covid-19 cases to show that high-social-capital...

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Social capital and the spread of Covid-19 : insights from European countries

Bartscher, Alina Kristin; Seitz, Sebastian; Siegloch, … - 2020

We explore the role of social capital in the spread of the recent Covid-19 pandemic in independent analyses for Austria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Exploiting within-country variation, we show that a one standard deviation increase in social capital leads to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012226751

Social capital and the spread of COVID-19 : insights from European countries

Bartscher, Alina Kristin; Seitz, Sebastian; Siegloch, … - 2020

We explore the role of social capital in the spread of the recent Covid-19 pandemic in independent analyses for Austria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Exploiting within-country variation, we show that a one standard deviation increase in social capital leads to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228562

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