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In this paper we show that findings of an apparently instable popularity function of U.S. presidents, as reported in the previous literature, are likely the consequence of the common use of linear estimation techniques. Employing Penalized Spline Smoothing in the context of Additive Mixed Models...
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The question that this paper addresses is whether or not parents are altruistic towards their children. A new approach … children who now live independently. After controlling for unobserved household characteristics, no positive effect of children …'s actual household income on parents' satisfaction can be found. However, children's health and education have a positive …
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We study the role of subjective social status on health and its determinants, with a particular emphasis on the predictive power of early-life conditions on subjective social status. A well-established literature links early-life conditions to later-life objective measures of socioeconomic...
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For the first time, a genealogical mass database is used to determine multigenerational socio-economic mobility of up to eight contiguous generations. The example of Germany (1600-1900) shows that in an AR(1) model, higher multigenerational stability of socio-economic status is measured the more...
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