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In a new paper, Matthias Collischon, Andreas Eberl and Tobias Wolbring how children moving out from the parental home affects parents’ subjective well-being. They find that not the empty nest move – i.e., the last child moving out -- is most important but the first move of a child moving home. For m...

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Using cutting edge AI techniques to create deepfaked videos, Juliane Kühn and Tobias Wolbring explore how physical attractiveness affects labor market success. They find that beauty pays but not under all circumstances. Only men consistently profit from their looks, while women benefit from a beauty...

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Tobias Wolbring was reelected as spokesman of the German Sociological Association at the last general meeting of the section "Methods of Empirical Social Research" in Cologne in November. The Executive Board also consists of Prof. Dr. Ing. Petra Stein (University of Duisburg-Essen) and Dr. Heinz Lei...

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