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Intergenerational earnings mobility and preferences for redistribution

Siedler, Thomas; Sonnenberg, Bettina - 2012

This paper analyzes the extent to which intergenerational upward and downward mobility in earnings are related to individuals' preferences for redistribution. A novel survey question from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study - whether the taxes paid by unskilled workers are too high, adequate...

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Does good advice come cheap? : on the assessment of risk preferences in the lab and in the field

Leuermann, Andrea; Roth, Benjamin - 2012

Advice is important for decision making, especially in the financial sector. We investigate how individuals assess risk preferences of others given sociodemographic information or pictures. Both non-professionals and financial professionals participate in this artefactual field experiment....

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Stereotypes and risk attitudes : evidence from the lab and the field

Leuermann, Andrea; Roth, Benjamin - 2012

Recent studies have found correlations between risk attitudes and several sociodemographic characteristics. In this paper, we deploy an artefactual field experiment and study whether subjects - non-professionals and -financial professionals - are aware of these correlations. This is largely...

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Intergenerational correlations of extreme right-wing party preferences and attitudes toward immigration

Avdeenko, Alexandra; Siedler, Thomas - 2016

This study analyzes the importance of parental socialization on the development of children’s far right … the strongest and most important predictor for young people’s right-wing extremism are parents’ right-wing extremist …

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Retirement, intergenerational time transfers, and fertility

Eibich, Peter; Siedler, Thomas - 2020

Retired parents might invest time into their adult children by providing childcare. Such intergenerational time … children's fertility. We use representative panel data from Germany to link observations on parents and adult children. We … parent's early retirement significantly increases the probability of childbirth for adult children. However, parental …

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Intergenerational transmission of risk attitudes : a revealed preference approach

Leuermann, Andrea; Necker, Sarah - 2011

from parents to their children. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we find that fathers' riskiness of …This study investigates whether the willingness to take income risks revealed by occupational choice is transmitted … job is a significant determinant of children's occupational risk, in particular sons' (excluding parent-child pairs with …

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University tuition fees and high school students' educational intentions

Bahrs, Michael; Siedler, Thomas - 2018

high school students and, if so, whether the effect on individuals from low-income households is particularly strong. We … decrease of around eight percentage points (ten percent). Individuals from low-income households mainly drive the results. This …

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Does education affect attitudes towards immigration? : evidence from Germany

Margaryan, Shushanik; Paul, Annemarie; Siedler, Thomas - 2018

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and exploiting the staggered implementation of a compulsory schooling reform in West Germany, this article ﬁnds that an additional year of schooling lowers the probability of being very concerned about immigration to Germany by around six...

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Political socialization in flux? : linking family non-intactness during childhood to adult civic engagement

Hener, Timo; Rainer, Helmut; Siedler, Thomas - 2013

-intact family and children's civic, social and political engagement as adults. We argue that this finding is consistent with …

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The long-run effects of sports club vouchers for primary school children

Marcus, Jan; Siedler, Thomas; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2021

Starting in 2009, the German state of Saxony distributed sports club membership vouchers among all 33,000 third graders in the state. The policy's objective was to encourage them to develop a long-term habit of exercising. In 2018, we carried out a large register-based survey among several...

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