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Many studies have documented a negative association between macroeconomic indicators and fertility in times of economic crisis. These studies are based on research designs that do not allow for excluding that the observed association is driven by confounders. The aim of the present paper is to...
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Family Rewards represents the first test of a Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program in the U.S., offering families incentives for children's education, family preventive health care and parents' work and training. Using a randomized controlled trial, we find that the program led to substantial...
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, we use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (2002–17) to examine the level of and inequality in wealth for children … mainly explained with compositional differences in household income and employment characteristics. Beyond level differences …, inequality between children from single-parent families is higher than for other family types and this inequality can only partly …
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We provide a concise introduction to a household-panel data infrastructure that provides the international research community with longitudinal data of private households in Germany since 1984: the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). We demonstrate the comparative strength of the SOEP data in...
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development of socio-economic inequality in mortality rates from 1990 to 2015 for different age groups and both genders. Ranking … in the West. At the same time, mortality rates were higher for all age groups and both genders in the East. Income has …We use data from the German Federal Statistical Office on population counts, births, deaths and income to study the …
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Die Deutschen öffnen sich dem Thema Zuwanderung: Immer weniger Deutsche ohne Migrationshintergrund, so zeigen die repräsentativen Daten dieses Berichts, fühlen sich durch Zuwanderung bedroht. Auch beim Thema Einbürgerung hat ein Wandel stattgefunden. Auf die Frage "Was ist für die Vergabe...
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This study aims to identify factors shaping attitude toward counterfeit products and their relative influence on attitude formation. This involves 200 potential and actual consumers of counterfeit products in an explanatory research. Antecedents of attitude toward counterfeit purchases extracted...
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In Spanish sports habits, there exists a clear increase of the institutionalised sports practice and a distinct trend of leisure and recreational sport. This motivates the current work as it is necessary to go deeply into the knowledge of this practice. The aims proposed are twofold. On the one...
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Die Wirtschaft in den Industrieländern unterliegt einem ständigen Anpassungsdruck. Wichtige aktuelle Treiber des Strukturwandels sind vor allem die Globalisierung, der technologische Fortschritt (insbesondere durch Digitalisierung und Automatisierung), die Demographie (durch Alterung und...
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Die Herstellung von Sicherheit inkorporiert häufig (proaktives) Handeln, das in die Grundbereiche menschlichen Lebens eingreift, ob als Einschränkung von Freiheiten oder als Neuformulierung dessen, was als "Privatheit" verstanden wird. Damit ist der Bereich der Sicherheit ein grundlegend...
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