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Thomas Siedler
Researcher at University of Hamburg
Publications - 110
Citations - 2828
Thomas Siedler is an academic researcher from University of Hamburg. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & German. The author has an hindex of 27, co-authored 101 publications receiving 2526 citations. Previous affiliations of Thomas Siedler include German Institute for Economic Research & Institute for the Study of Labor.
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Cohort Profile: The Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II)
Lars Bertram,Anke Böckenhoff,Ilja Demuth,Sandra Düzel,Rahel Eckardt,Shu-Chen Li,Ulman Lindenberger,Graham Pawelec,Thomas Siedler,Gert G. Wagner,Elisabeth Steinhagen-Thiessen +10 more
TL;DR: The Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II), a multidisciplinary and multi-institutional project that ascertains a large number of ageing-related variables from a wide range of different functional domains, is launched, to identify and characterize the factors associated with 'healthy' vs. 'unhealthy' ageing.
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Intergenerational Mobility and Marital Sorting
TL;DR: The authors found that about 40-50% of the covariance between parents and own permanent family income can be attributed to the person to whom one is married, driven by strong spouse correlations in human capital.
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Does democracy foster trust
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated how individuals? attitudes toward social and institutional trust are shaped by the political regime in which they live. But they found that the experience of democracy by East Germans since reunification did not serve to increase levels of social trust significantly.
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Measuring people's trust
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measured trust and trustworthiness in British society with a newly designed experiment using real monetary rewards and a sample of the British population, finding that about 40% of people were willing to trust a stranger in their experiment, and their trust was rewarded half of the time.
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Measuring people's trust
TL;DR: In this article, the authors measured trust and trustworthiness in British society with a newly designed experiment using real monetary rewards and a sample of the British population, finding that about 40% of people were willing to trust a stranger in their experiment, and their trust was rewarded half of the time.