In his 2015 Economic Sciences Nobel lecture, Angus Deaton emphasized key issues for
understanding welfare-enhancing policies (see Deaton 2015): First, differences in resources …

Despite widespread support from policy makers, funding agencies, and scientific journals,
academic researchers rarely make their research data available to others. At the same time …

The Panel Study Labour Market and Social Security (PASS), is a household panel survey of
the German residential population oversampling households receiving welfare benefits. 1 …

This paper estimates sibling correlations in cognitive and non-cognitive skills to evaluate the
importance of family background for skill formation. Based on a large representative German …

Forscherinnen und Forscher, die entsprechende Merkmale in ihrer Untersuchung erfassen
möchten, stehen allerdings zurzeit meist vor dem Problem, für ihre Zwecke geeignete …

We model migration across domestic labor markets (internal migration) as the outcome of a
job search process in which job seekers form subjective beliefs about the return search effort …

It is widely acknowledged that data sharing has great potential for scientific progress.
However, so far making data available has little impact on a researcher's reputation. Thus …

Personality can be described at different levels of abstraction. Whereas the Big Five
domains are the dominant level of analysis, several researchers have called for more fine …

Depression affects the way that people process information and make decisions, including
those involving risk and uncertainty. Our objective is to analyze the way that depressive …

This study introduces and investigates the validity of a brief scale measuring a challenged
sense of belonging. The sense of belonging as well as challenges to this sense are …