Abstract This study presents results of the validation of an ultra-short survey measure of patience included in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Survey responses predict intertemporal choice behavior in incentive-compatible decisions in a representative sample of the German adult population.

Geringqualifizierte haben in Deutschland ein weitaus höheres Risiko arbeitslos zu werden als Fachkräfte. Kann ein subventionierter Niedriglohnsektor - wie er derzeit im Bündnis für Arbeit diskutiert wird - zur Lösung ihres Arbeitsplatzproblems beitragen? In welchem Umfang werden...

In this paper, motivated by contradictory evidence on the effect of income on democracy, we investigate the hypothesis that it is income shocks – major income fluctuations relative to the trend – rather than marginal year-on-year variation in income levels that lead to non-trivial changes in...

Considerable evidence has documented that the elderly are more religious and that religiosity is associated with better health and lower mortality. Yet, little is known about the reverse role of life expectancy or proximity to death, as opposed to age, for religiosity. This paper provides...

This paper provides an empirical investigation of the hypothesis that population shocks such as the repeated outbreaks of the plague affected the timing of the demographic transition. The empirical analysis uses disaggregate data from Germany and exploits geographic variation in the exposure to...