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The purchasing power reflects the household income. It comprises information on labour supply, capital wealth, rental and leasing income minus taxes and social security contributions, including social transfers such as unemployment benefits, child-allowances and pensions. Regular payments, e.g. for rent, electricity or insurance premiums are not subtracted from the purchasing power. Microm computes the purchasing power in cooperation with Michael Bauer Research GmbH. The computation is based on statistical models on a small regional scale. This allows for small-scale purchasing power information on the street segment and postcode (PLZ8) level. As explanatory variables for the econometric models, many microm variables are used, such as typology, age, status and the car variables. Due to persistent differences between East and West Germany, the purchasing power was modelled separately for both parts (microm 2016, p. 106).

The purchasing power reflects the household income. It comprises information on labour supply, capital wealth, rental and leasing income minus taxes and social security contributions, including social transfers such as unemployment benefits, child-allowances and pensions. Regular payments, e.g. for rent, electricity or insurance premiums are not subtracted from the purchasing power. Microm computes the purchasing power in cooperation with Michael Bauer Research GmbH. The computation is based on statistical models on a small regional scale. This allows for small-scale purchasing power information on the street segment and postcode (PLZ8) level. As explanatory variables for the econometric models, many microm variables are used, such as typology, age, status and the car variables. Due to persistent differences between East and West Germany, the purchasing power was modelled separately for both parts (microm 2016, p. 106).

The purchasing power reflects the household income. It comprises information on labour supply, capital wealth, rental and leasing income minus taxes and social security contributions, including social transfers such as unemployment benefits, child-allowances and pensions. Regular payments, e.g. for rent, electricity or insurance premiums are not subtracted from the purchasing power. Microm computes the purchasing power in cooperation with Michael Bauer Research GmbH. The computation is based on statistical models on a small regional scale. This allows for small-scale purchasing power information on the street segment and postcode (PLZ8) level. As explanatory variables for the econometric models, many microm variables are used, such as typology, age, status and the car variables. Due to persistent differences between East and West Germany, the purchasing power was modelled separately for both parts (microm 2016, p. 106).

Previous research on educational aspirations and educational decision-making has mostly focused on high-income countries and thus on a relatively homogeneous socio-economic context. However, educational decision-making may be sensitive to contextual factors such as economic deprivation, a dysfunctional welfare state or poor access to credit markets – characteristics shared by most low- and middle-income countries. To better understand how economically disadvantaged individuals in developing countries make their educational choices, we conducted a survey based on a random sample with high school students in the rural department Morazán in El Salvador, a lower middle-income country in Latin America. Our results show that regardless of the social background, almost all students aspire to pursue tertiary education, probably due to the high tertiary degree premium in earnings and the high social benefits. However, the lack of possibilities to finance their studies generally prevents the realisation of these aspirations for lower social background students. While in high-income countries, cost factors are not very important in the decision-making process, the burden of costs explains around 45 percent of the social background effect in El Salvador. Other factors such as academic confidence, expected future economic benefits, parental status maintenance wish, individual risk aversion and time discounting preferences play only a minor role.

English:

The HaSpaD project harmonizes and pools longitudinal data for the analysis of partnership biographies from nine German survey programs. These are in detail:

The German Family Panel (pairfam), Data file Version 12.0.0
ALLBUS/GGSS 1980-2016 (Kumulierte Allgemeine Bevölkerungsumfrage der Sozialwissenschaften / Cumulated German General Social Survey 1980-2016)
Family Surveys 1988-2000 (Change and Development of Forms of Family Life in West Germany (Survey of Families), Family and Partner Relations in Eastern Germany (Survey of Families), Change and Development of Ways of Family Life - 2nd Wave (Survey of Families), Change and Development of Families` Way of Life - 3rd Wave (Family Survey))
Mannheim Divorce Study 1996
German Fertility and Family Survey (FFS) 1992
German Life History Studies (Courses of Life and Historical Change in East Germany (Life History Study LV DDR), Courses of Life and Social Change: Courses of Life and Welfare Development (Life History Study LV-West I), Courses of Life and Social Change: The Between-the-War Cohort in Transition to Retirement (Life History Study LV-West II A - Personal Interview), Courses of Life and Social Change: The Between-the-War Cohort in Transition to Retirement (Life History Study LV-West II T - Telephone Interview), Courses of Life and Social Change: Access to Occupation in Employment Crisis (Life History Study LV-West III), East German Life Courses After Unification (Life History Study LV-Ost Panel), East German Life Courses After Unification (Life History Study LV Ost 71), Education, Training, and Occupation: Life Courses of the 1964 and 1971 Birth Cohorts in West Germany (Life History Study LV-West 64/71), Early Careers and Starting a Family: Life Courses of the 1971 Birth Cohorts in East and West Germany (Life History Study LV-Panel 71))
Generations & Gender Survey (German Subsample) GGS Waves 1 and 2
The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), German Sample (Share Waves 1, 2, and 3) and
Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), data for the years 1984-2018.



The HaSpaD projects does not distribute own datasets. Instead, the HaSpaD syntax package allows to harmonize and pool all German surveys with partnership biographical data which are available for secondary use via a research data repository. Data access to these source data must be arranged autonomously by users of the HaSpaD syntax. The scripts harmonize and pool the partnership biographical data, as well as additional variables on respondents and their partnerships. These include, for example, gender, religious affiliation, and nationality of the respondents. The pooled data set provides the opportunity to analyse previously unanswered questions on marriage and partnership stability from a historical and life course theoretical perspective, in particular on the long-term increase in divorce rates and on social changes in risk factors for separation. In addition, methodological developments of research syntheses will be facilitated.





Deutsch:

Das HaSpaD-Projekt harmonisiert und kumuliert Längsschnittdaten zur Analyse von Partnerschaftsbiografien aus neun deutschen Umfrageprogrammen. Dies sind im Einzelnen:

Beziehungs- und Familienpanels pairfam, Release 12.0
Kumulierte Allgemeine Bevölkerungsumfrage der Sozialwissenschaften (ALLBUS / GGSS) 1980-2016
Familiensurvey 1988 - 2000 (Wandel und Entwicklung familialer Lebensformen in Westdeutschland (Familiensurvey), Familie und Partnerbeziehungen in Ostdeutschland (Familiensurvey), Wandel und Entwicklung familialer Lebensformen - 2. Welle (Familiensurvey), Wandel und Entwicklung familialer Lebensformen - 3. Welle (Familiensurvey))
Mannheimer Scheidungsstudie 1996
Deutscher Fertility and Family Survey 1992
Lebensverlaufsstudien (Lebensverläufe und historischer Wandel in Ostdeutschland (Lebensverlaufsstudie LV-DDR), Lebensverläufe und gesellschaftlicher Wandel: Lebensverläufe und Wohlfahrtsentwicklung (Lebensverlaufsstudie LV-West I), Lebensverläufe und gesellschaftlicher Wandel: Die Zwischenkriegskohorte im Übergang zum Ruhestand (Lebensverlaufsstudie LV-West II A - Persönliche Befragung), Lebensverläufe und gesellschaftlicher Wandel: Die Zwischenkriegskohorte im Übergang zum Ruhestand (Lebensverlaufsstudie LV-West II T - Telefonische Befragung), Lebensverläufe und gesellschaftlicher Wandel: Berufszugang in der Beschäftigungskrise (Lebensverlaufsstudie LV-West III), Ostdeutsche Lebensverläufe im Transformationsprozess (Lebensverlaufsstudie LV-Ost Panel), Ostdeutsche Lebensverläufe im Transformationsprozess (Lebensverlaufsstudie LV-Ost 71), Ausbildungs- und Berufsverläufe der Geburtskohorten 1964 und 1971 in Westdeutschland (Lebensverlaufsstudie LV-West 64/71), Frühe Karrieren und Familiengründung: Lebensverläufe der Geburtskohorte 1971 in Ost‐ und Westdeutschland (Lebensverlaufsstudie LV-Panel 71))
Generations & Gender Survey (Unterstichprobe Deutschland) GGS Waves 1 and 2
The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), Deutsches Sample SHARE Wellen 1, 2, und 3 und
Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP), Daten der Jahre 1984-2018.



HaSpaD stellt keine eigenen Datensätze zum Download zur Verfügung. Stattdessen ermöglicht das HaSpaD-Syntaxpaket die Verknüpfung aller thematisch relevanten verfügbaren deutschen Umfragedaten, die zur Sekundärnutzung über ein Forschungdatenrepositorium bereitgestellt werden. Der Datenzugang zu diesen Ursprungsdaten muss separat durch Nutzende der HaSpaD-Syntax erfolgen. Die Skripte ermöglichen die Harmonisierung und Kumulation der paarbiografischen Daten aus den verschiedenen Umfrageprogrammen. Außerdem werden harmonisierte Zusatzvariablen an die paarbiografischen Daten angefügt. Hierzu zählen beispielsweise Geschlecht, Konfessionszugehörigkeit und Staatsangehörigkeit. Durch die Verknüpfung werden Analysen zu bislang unbeantwortetem Fragen zu Ehe- und Partnerschaftsstabilität aus historischer und lebensverlaufstheoretischer Perspektive, insbesondere zum langfristigen Anstieg der Scheidungsraten und zum sozialen Wandel von Risikofaktoren für Trennungen möglich. Darüber hinaus werden Untersuchungen methodischen Weiterentwicklung von Forschungssynthesen vereinfacht.

English:

The HaSpaD project harmonizes and pools longitudinal data for the analysis of partnership biographies from nine German survey programs. These are in detail:

The German Family Panel (pairfam), Data file Version 12.0.0
ALLBUS/GGSS 1980-2016 (Kumulierte Allgemeine Bevölkerungsumfrage der Sozialwissenschaften / Cumulated German General Social Survey 1980-2016)
Family Surveys 1988-2000 (Change and Development of Forms of Family Life in West Germany (Survey of Families), Family and Partner Relations in Eastern Germany (Survey of Families), Change and Development of Ways of Family Life - 2nd Wave (Survey of Families), Change and Development of Families` Way of Life - 3rd Wave (Family Survey))
Mannheim Divorce Study 1996
German Fertility and Family Survey (FFS) 1992
German Life History Studies (Courses of Life and Historical Change in East Germany (Life History Study LV DDR), Courses of Life and Social Change: Courses of Life and Welfare Development (Life History Study LV-West I), Courses of Life and Social Change: The Between-the-War Cohort in Transition to Retirement (Life History Study LV-West II A - Personal Interview), Courses of Life and Social Change: The Between-the-War Cohort in Transition to Retirement (Life History Study LV-West II T - Telephone Interview), Courses of Life and Social Change: Access to Occupation in Employment Crisis (Life History Study LV-West III), East German Life Courses After Unification (Life History Study LV-Ost Panel), East German Life Courses After Unification (Life History Study LV Ost 71), Education, Training, and Occupation: Life Courses of the 1964 and 1971 Birth Cohorts in West Germany (Life History Study LV-West 64/71), Early Careers and Starting a Family: Life Courses of the 1971 Birth Cohorts in East and West Germany (Life History Study LV-Panel 71))
Generations & Gender Survey (German Subsample) GGS Waves 1 and 2
The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), German Sample (Share Waves 1, 2, and 3) and
Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), data for the years 1984-2018.



The HaSpaD projects does not distribute own datasets. Instead, the HaSpaD syntax package allows to harmonize and pool all German surveys with partnership biographical data which are available for secondary use via a research data repository. Data access to these source data must be arranged autonomously by users of the HaSpaD syntax. The scripts harmonize and pool the partnership biographical data, as well as additional variables on respondents and their partnerships. These include, for example, gender, religious affiliation, and nationality of the respondents. The pooled data set provides the opportunity to analyse previously unanswered questions on marriage and partnership stability from a historical and life course theoretical perspective, in particular on the long-term increase in divorce rates and on social changes in risk factors for separation. In addition, methodological developments of research syntheses will be facilitated.





Deutsch:

Das HaSpaD-Projekt harmonisiert und kumuliert Längsschnittdaten zur Analyse von Partnerschaftsbiografien aus neun deutschen Umfrageprogrammen. Dies sind im Einzelnen:

Beziehungs- und Familienpanels pairfam, Release 12.0
Kumulierte Allgemeine Bevölkerungsumfrage der Sozialwissenschaften (ALLBUS / GGSS) 1980-2016
Familiensurvey 1988 - 2000 (Wandel und Entwicklung familialer Lebensformen in Westdeutschland (Familiensurvey), Familie und Partnerbeziehungen in Ostdeutschland (Familiensurvey), Wandel und Entwicklung familialer Lebensformen - 2. Welle (Familiensurvey), Wandel und Entwicklung familialer Lebensformen - 3. Welle (Familiensurvey))
Mannheimer Scheidungsstudie 1996
Deutscher Fertility and Family Survey 1992
Lebensverlaufsstudien (Lebensverläufe und historischer Wandel in Ostdeutschland (Lebensverlaufsstudie LV-DDR), Lebensverläufe und gesellschaftlicher Wandel: Lebensverläufe und Wohlfahrtsentwicklung (Lebensverlaufsstudie LV-West I), Lebensverläufe und gesellschaftlicher Wandel: Die Zwischenkriegskohorte im Übergang zum Ruhestand (Lebensverlaufsstudie LV-West II A - Persönliche Befragung), Lebensverläufe und gesellschaftlicher Wandel: Die Zwischenkriegskohorte im Übergang zum Ruhestand (Lebensverlaufsstudie LV-West II T - Telefonische Befragung), Lebensverläufe und gesellschaftlicher Wandel: Berufszugang in der Beschäftigungskrise (Lebensverlaufsstudie LV-West III), Ostdeutsche Lebensverläufe im Transformationsprozess (Lebensverlaufsstudie LV-Ost Panel), Ostdeutsche Lebensverläufe im Transformationsprozess (Lebensverlaufsstudie LV-Ost 71), Ausbildungs- und Berufsverläufe der Geburtskohorten 1964 und 1971 in Westdeutschland (Lebensverlaufsstudie LV-West 64/71), Frühe Karrieren und Familiengründung: Lebensverläufe der Geburtskohorte 1971 in Ost‐ und Westdeutschland (Lebensverlaufsstudie LV-Panel 71))
Generations & Gender Survey (Unterstichprobe Deutschland) GGS Waves 1 and 2
The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), Deutsches Sample SHARE Wellen 1, 2, und 3 und
Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP), Daten der Jahre 1984-2018.



HaSpaD stellt keine eigenen Datensätze zum Download zur Verfügung. Stattdessen ermöglicht das HaSpaD-Syntaxpaket die Verknüpfung aller thematisch relevanten verfügbaren deutschen Umfragedaten, die zur Sekundärnutzung über ein Forschungdatenrepositorium bereitgestellt werden. Der Datenzugang zu diesen Ursprungsdaten muss separat durch Nutzende der HaSpaD-Syntax erfolgen. Die Skripte ermöglichen die Harmonisierung und Kumulation der paarbiografischen Daten aus den verschiedenen Umfrageprogrammen. Außerdem werden harmonisierte Zusatzvariablen an die paarbiografischen Daten angefügt. Hierzu zählen beispielsweise Geschlecht, Konfessionszugehörigkeit und Staatsangehörigkeit. Durch die Verknüpfung werden Analysen zu bislang unbeantwortetem Fragen zu Ehe- und Partnerschaftsstabilität aus historischer und lebensverlaufstheoretischer Perspektive, insbesondere zum langfristigen Anstieg der Scheidungsraten und zum sozialen Wandel von Risikofaktoren für Trennungen möglich. Darüber hinaus werden Untersuchungen methodischen Weiterentwicklung von Forschungssynthesen vereinfacht.

English:

The HaSpaD project harmonizes and pools longitudinal data for the analysis of partnership biographies from nine German survey programs. These are in detail:

The German Family Panel (pairfam), Data file Version 12.0.0
ALLBUS/GGSS 1980-2016 (Kumulierte Allgemeine Bevölkerungsumfrage der Sozialwissenschaften / Cumulated German General Social Survey 1980-2016)
Family Surveys 1988-2000 (Change and Development of Forms of Family Life in West Germany (Survey of Families), Family and Partner Relations in Eastern Germany (Survey of Families), Change and Development of Ways of Family Life - 2nd Wave (Survey of Families), Change and Development of Families` Way of Life - 3rd Wave (Family Survey))
Mannheim Divorce Study 1996
German Fertility and Family Survey (FFS) 1992
German Life History Studies (Courses of Life and Historical Change in East Germany (Life History Study LV DDR), Courses of Life and Social Change: Courses of Life and Welfare Development (Life History Study LV-West I), Courses of Life and Social Change: The Between-the-War Cohort in Transition to Retirement (Life History Study LV-West II A - Personal Interview), Courses of Life and Social Change: The Between-the-War Cohort in Transition to Retirement (Life History Study LV-West II T - Telephone Interview), Courses of Life and Social Change: Access to Occupation in Employment Crisis (Life History Study LV-West III), East German Life Courses After Unification (Life History Study LV-Ost Panel), East German Life Courses After Unification (Life History Study LV Ost 71), Education, Training, and Occupation: Life Courses of the 1964 and 1971 Birth Cohorts in West Germany (Life History Study LV-West 64/71), Early Careers and Starting a Family: Life Courses of the 1971 Birth Cohorts in East and West Germany (Life History Study LV-Panel 71))
Generations & Gender Survey (German Subsample) GGS Waves 1 and 2
The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), German Sample (Share Waves 1, 2, and 3) and
Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), data for the years 1984-2018.



The HaSpaD projects does not distribute own datasets. Instead, the HaSpaD syntax package allows to harmonize and pool all German surveys with partnership biographical data which are available for secondary use via a research data repository. Data access to these source data must be arranged autonomously by users of the HaSpaD syntax. The scripts harmonize and pool the partnership biographical data, as well as additional variables on respondents and their partnerships. These include, for example, gender, religious affiliation, and nationality of the respondents. The pooled data set provides the opportunity to analyse previously unanswered questions on marriage and partnership stability from a historical and life course theoretical perspective, in particular on the long-term increase in divorce rates and on social changes in risk factors for separation. In addition, methodological developments of research syntheses will be facilitated.





Deutsch:

Das HaSpaD-Projekt harmonisiert und kumuliert Längsschnittdaten zur Analyse von Partnerschaftsbiografien aus neun deutschen Umfrageprogrammen. Dies sind im Einzelnen:

Beziehungs- und Familienpanels pairfam, Release 12.0
Kumulierte Allgemeine Bevölkerungsumfrage der Sozialwissenschaften (ALLBUS / GGSS) 1980-2016
Familiensurvey 1988 - 2000 (Wandel und Entwicklung familialer Lebensformen in Westdeutschland (Familiensurvey), Familie und Partnerbeziehungen in Ostdeutschland (Familiensurvey), Wandel und Entwicklung familialer Lebensformen - 2. Welle (Familiensurvey), Wandel und Entwicklung familialer Lebensformen - 3. Welle (Familiensurvey))
Mannheimer Scheidungsstudie 1996
Deutscher Fertility and Family Survey 1992
Lebensverlaufsstudien (Lebensverläufe und historischer Wandel in Ostdeutschland (Lebensverlaufsstudie LV-DDR), Lebensverläufe und gesellschaftlicher Wandel: Lebensverläufe und Wohlfahrtsentwicklung (Lebensverlaufsstudie LV-West I), Lebensverläufe und gesellschaftlicher Wandel: Die Zwischenkriegskohorte im Übergang zum Ruhestand (Lebensverlaufsstudie LV-West II A - Persönliche Befragung), Lebensverläufe und gesellschaftlicher Wandel: Die Zwischenkriegskohorte im Übergang zum Ruhestand (Lebensverlaufsstudie LV-West II T - Telefonische Befragung), Lebensverläufe und gesellschaftlicher Wandel: Berufszugang in der Beschäftigungskrise (Lebensverlaufsstudie LV-West III), Ostdeutsche Lebensverläufe im Transformationsprozess (Lebensverlaufsstudie LV-Ost Panel), Ostdeutsche Lebensverläufe im Transformationsprozess (Lebensverlaufsstudie LV-Ost 71), Ausbildungs- und Berufsverläufe der Geburtskohorten 1964 und 1971 in Westdeutschland (Lebensverlaufsstudie LV-West 64/71), Frühe Karrieren und Familiengründung: Lebensverläufe der Geburtskohorte 1971 in Ost‐ und Westdeutschland (Lebensverlaufsstudie LV-Panel 71))
Generations & Gender Survey (Unterstichprobe Deutschland) GGS Waves 1 and 2
The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), Deutsches Sample SHARE Wellen 1, 2, und 3 und
Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP), Daten der Jahre 1984-2018.



HaSpaD stellt keine eigenen Datensätze zum Download zur Verfügung. Stattdessen ermöglicht das HaSpaD-Syntaxpaket die Verknüpfung aller thematisch relevanten verfügbaren deutschen Umfragedaten, die zur Sekundärnutzung über ein Forschungdatenrepositorium bereitgestellt werden. Der Datenzugang zu diesen Ursprungsdaten muss separat durch Nutzende der HaSpaD-Syntax erfolgen. Die Skripte ermöglichen die Harmonisierung und Kumulation der paarbiografischen Daten aus den verschiedenen Umfrageprogrammen. Außerdem werden harmonisierte Zusatzvariablen an die paarbiografischen Daten angefügt. Hierzu zählen beispielsweise Geschlecht, Konfessionszugehörigkeit und Staatsangehörigkeit. Durch die Verknüpfung werden Analysen zu bislang unbeantwortetem Fragen zu Ehe- und Partnerschaftsstabilität aus historischer und lebensverlaufstheoretischer Perspektive, insbesondere zum langfristigen Anstieg der Scheidungsraten und zum sozialen Wandel von Risikofaktoren für Trennungen möglich. Darüber hinaus werden Untersuchungen methodischen Weiterentwicklung von Forschungssynthesen vereinfacht.

The focus of the Community Innovation Survey 3 (CIS 3) is the enterprise, conceptually referred to as the 'innovation dynamo' in the Oslo manual for innovation statistics. The CIS was designed to overcome seeing innovation as a linear model, whereby innovation follows on from the creative activity of invention. Instead, the data collected from this survey covers and embodies the diffusion of knowledge. Innovation is a complex process with many interacting components. The CIS3 questionnaire is broken down into 12 different sections:1. Product innovation;2. Process innovation;3. Not yet completed or abandoned innovation activities;4. Innovation activity and expenditure;5. Intramural research and experimental development (R&D);6. Effects of innovation;7. Public funding of innovation;8. Innovation co-operation;9. Sources of information for innovation;10. Hampered innovation activity;11. Patents and other protection methods;12. Other important strategical and organizational changes in the enterprise.In order to ensure comparability across countries, Eurostat, in close cooperation with the EU Member States, developed a standard core questionnaire, with an accompanying set of definitions and methodological recommendations. Countries participated on the basis of gentleman's agreements and usually applied the harmonized concepts, definitions and methodological recommendations

Monetary policy is generally regarded as a central element in the attempts of policy makers to attenuate business-cycle fluctuations. According to the New Keynesian paradigm, central banks are able to stimulate or depress aggregate demand in the short run by adjusting their nominal interest rate targets. The effects of interest rate changes on aggregate consumption, the largest component of aggregate demand, are well understood in the context of this paradigm, on which the canonical "workhorse'' model used in monetary policy analysis is grounded. A key feature of the model is that aggregate consumption is fully described by the amount of goods consumed by a representative household. A decline in the policy rate for instance implies that the real interest rate declines, the representative household saves less and hence increase its demand for consumption. At the same time, general equilibrium effects let labour income grow causing consumption to increase further. However, the mechanism outlined above ignores a considerable amount of empirically-observed heterogeneity among households. For example, households with a higher earnings elasticity to interest rate changes benefit more from a rate cut than those with a lower elasticity; households with large debt positions are at a relative advantage over households with large bond holdings; and households with low exposure to inflation are relatively better off than those holding a sizeable amount of nominal assets. As a result, the contribution to the aggregate consumption response differs substantially across households, implying that monetary expansions and tightenings produce relative "winners'' and relative "losers''.

The aim of the project laid out in this proposal is to give a disaggregated account of the heterogeneous effects of monetary-policy induced interest rate changes on household consumption and a detailed analysis of the channels underlying them. Additionally, it seeks to draw conclusions about the determinants of the strength of the transmission mechanism of monetary policy. To do so, it relies on a large panel comprising detailed data from the universe of all households residing in Norway between 1993 and 2015 supplemented with additional micro-data provided by the European Commission. I will be assisted by two project partners, Pascal Paul who is a member of the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and Martin Holm who is affiliated with the Research Unit of Statistics Norway and the University of Oslo. In addition, I would like to collaborate with and help train a doctoral student based at the University of Lausanne on this project.

Existing empirical studies of the consumption response to monetary policy at the micro level rely on survey data. Therefore, they are subject to a number of severe data limitations. The surveys employed typically have either no or only a short panel dimension, suffer from attrition, include only limited information on income and wealth, are top-coded, and contain a significant amount of measurement error. The administrative data set provided to us by Statistics Norway suffers from none of these issues, implying that we are in a unique position to evaluate the household-level effects of policy rate changes. In a first step, we use forecasts published by the Norwegian central bank to derive monetary policy shocks that are robust to the simultaneity problem inherent in the identification of the effects of monetary policy following Romer and Romer (2004). We then confront the micro-data with the estimated shocks to study the consumption response along different segments of the income and wealth distribution and to test the importance of heterogeneity in labour earnings, financial income, liquid assets, inflation exposure and interest rate exposure among others. The findings will be of high relevance as they will not only allow us to evaluate channels hypothesised in the analytical literature, improve our understanding of the monetary policy transmission mechanism and its distributional consequences but also serve as a benchmark for structural models built both by theorists and practitioners.

Our paper addresses the relationship between parental wealth and children's post-secondary transitions. More specifically, we contrast the likelihood of children with an upper secondary degree to make a transition into further education or the labor market with their likelihood to stay inactive, i.e., to engage neither in further education nor in labor market activity (NEET) after leaving school for the first time. While previous research argues that there is a general positive association between parental wealth and children's educational and occupational transitions, we argue that for children of wealthy parents, this association might be weaker or even negative. Our study focuses on Germany, where wealth has a weak correlation with the traditional measures of parental socio-economic background. For our empirical analyses, we apply data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and use binary logistic regression models for discrete-time event history analyses. Although not statistically significant, our results show that the relationship between parental wealth and children's post-secondary transitions is not linear. Our study contributes to previous research by providing a detailed examination of the potential mechanisms underlying the relationship between parental wealth and children's post-secondary transitions.

The proposed project aims to study the relations between inequalities and young people's ways of doing politics as well as to advance scenarios for future democratic models and political systems in Europe that are more inclusive for young people. It has three main objectives: (1) To provide systematic evidence on the ways in which inequalities are lived by young people and (re)acted upon, exploring the coping mechanisms which are embedded in young people's ways of doing politics; these coping mechanisms are manifested in multiple forms, i.e. as either political (dis)engagement and contestation online and offline or as (trans-)national democratic innovation and experimentation; (2) To advance knowledge on the conditions and causes underpinning young people's ways of doing politics; this involves an examination of their norms, values, attitudes, and behaviors regarding democracy, power, politics, policymaking, social and political participation (online and offline) and the organization of economic, social and private life in order to identify ways to strengthen youth political participation and engagement with democratic life in Europe; (3) To suggest a number of different future scenarios for the development of democracy and political participation in Europe, putting particular emphasis on implementing new democratic models that are more inclusive for young people especially those with fewer opportunities.

The proposed project aims to study the relations between inequalities and young people's ways of doing politics as well as to advance scenarios for future democratic models and political systems in Europe that are more inclusive for young people. It has three main objectives: (1) To provide systematic evidence on the ways in which inequalities are lived by young people and (re)acted upon, exploring the coping mechanisms which are embedded in young people's ways of doing politics; these coping mechanisms are manifested in multiple forms, i.e. as either political (dis)engagement and contestation online and offline or as (trans-)national democratic innovation and experimentation; (2) To advance knowledge on the conditions and causes underpinning young people's ways of doing politics; this involves an examination of their norms, values, attitudes, and behaviors regarding democracy, power, politics, policymaking, social and political participation (online and offline) and the organization of economic, social and private life in order to identify ways to strengthen youth political participation and engagement with democratic life in Europe; (3) To suggest a number of different future scenarios for the development of democracy and political participation in Europe, putting particular emphasis on implementing new democratic models that are more inclusive for young people especially those with fewer opportunities.

The proposed project aims to study the relations between inequalities and young people's ways of doing politics as well as to advance scenarios for future democratic models and political systems in Europe that are more inclusive for young people. It has three main objectives: (1) To provide systematic evidence on the ways in which inequalities are lived by young people and (re)acted upon, exploring the coping mechanisms which are embedded in young people's ways of doing politics; these coping mechanisms are manifested in multiple forms, i.e. as either political (dis)engagement and contestation online and offline or as (trans-)national democratic innovation and experimentation; (2) To advance knowledge on the conditions and causes underpinning young people's ways of doing politics; this involves an examination of their norms, values, attitudes, and behaviors regarding democracy, power, politics, policymaking, social and political participation (online and offline) and the organization of economic, social and private life in order to identify ways to strengthen youth political participation and engagement with democratic life in Europe; (3) To suggest a number of different future scenarios for the development of democracy and political participation in Europe, putting particular emphasis on implementing new democratic models that are more inclusive for young people especially those with fewer opportunities.

Pregnancy termination and its interplay with critical life stages and events has rarely been subjected to careful scrutiny in the social sciences, mainly due to a lack of high-quality survey data. Using the first eleven waves (2008-2018) of the German Family Panel Study (pairfam) and employing linear probability models, we examine women and also men with partners who either had induced abortion (N=260 women; N=170 men) or became parents (N=1478 women; N=1220 men). We frame abortion as a social process in which life circumstances and disruptive life events fundamentally shape the decision to carry a pregnancy to term or to discontinue it. We find that teenage or late pregnancy, educational enrolment, previous children, partnership dissolution and economic uncertainty are associated with induced abortion. Our evidence suggests that abortion decisions are powerfully shaped by life-course contingencies and their complex intertwining.