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Regional social contexts and individual fertility decisions : a multilevel analysis of first and second birth in Western Germany

Hank, Karsten - 2002

social interaction and culture may translate into parameters that directly affect individual behaviour. Data from the German …

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The differential influence of women's residential district on their risk of entering motherhood and first marriage : a discrete time multilevel analysis of Western German panel dat...

Hank, Karsten - 2002

To begin with, we sketch a general multilevel model of regional social contexts and individual family formation behavior, where particular attention is paid to the determinants of the actor's situation. Then a set of bridge hypotheses is proposed, on which the empirical investigation of the...

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Peer effects in parental leave decisions

Welteke, Clara; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2016

This paper analyzes to what extent parental leave decisions of mothers with young children depend on the decisions made by their coworkers. The identification of peer effects, which are defined as indirect effects of the behavior of a social reference group on individual outcomes, bears various...

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The effect of peer observation on consumption choices experimental evidence

Grohmann, Antonia; Sakha, Sahra - 2015 - Updated version

This paper investigates the impact of peer observation on consumption decisions of rural households in Thailand using a lab-in-the-field experiment. We find that observing groups show lower within group standard deviation. Thus, we provide evidence for conformity. Further, we find that...

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The effect of peer observation on consumption choices : experimental evidence

Grohmann, Antonia; Sakha, Sahra - 2015

This paper investigates the impact of peer observation on the consumption decisions of rural households in Thailand using a lab-in-the-field experiment. We find that those groups that observe each other show lower within group standard deviation in their decisions. Thus, we find evidence for...

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Fathers, parental leave and gender norms

Unterhofer, Ulrike; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2017

-treated individuals through social interaction and can thus change attitudes towards gender roles in a society as a whole. …

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Interactions in fixed effects regression models

Giesselmann, Marco; Schmidt, Alexander - 2018

An interaction in a fixed effects (FE) regression is usually specified by demeaning the product term. However, this … interacted variables whose moderators vary within units. This is desirable if the interaction of one unit-specific and one time … algebraic transformations show, the FE interaction estimator picks up unit-specific effect heterogeneity of both variables …

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Social identity and group lending!

Chatterjee, Prabirendra (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Spatial proximity and contacts between elderly parents and their adult children : a European comparison

Hank, Karsten (contributor) - 2005

Using data from the 2004 'Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe' (SHARE), this paper continues and extends recent cross-national research on the proximity and contacts of elderly parents to their adult children. To begin with, we provide a brief description of the 'geography of the...

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Social relationships and trust

Binzel, Christine; Fehr, Dietmar - 2010

While social relationships play an important role for individuals to cope with missing market institutions, they also limit individuals' range of trading partners. This paper aims at understanding the determinants of trust at various social distances when information asymmetries are present....

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