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Overview

Gert G. Wagner was affiliated with the German Institute for Economic Research in Germany. Their research contributions spanned across social sciences and psychology, with a primary focus on sociology and political science, clinical psychology, health, social psychology, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

Wagner's work addressed a wide range of topics including health disparities and outcomes, aging and gerontology research, personality traits and psychology, mental health research topics, COVID-19 and mental health, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, as well as epigenetics and DNA methylation.

Frequent co-authors in their body of work included:

  • Denis Gerstorf
  • Johanna Drewelies
  • Ulman Lindenberger
  • Ilja Demuth
  • Ralph Hertwig

They published extensively in a number of venues, notably:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Psychology and Aging
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Wirtschaftsdienst
  • DIW Wochenbericht

Among their recent papers were:

  • "Parental well-being in times of Covid-19 in Germany" (2021), published in Review of Economics of the Household
  • "Trajectories of Big Five Personality Traits: A Coordinated Analysis of 16 Longitudinal Samples" (2020), published in European Journal of Personality
  • "How people know their risk preference" (2020), published in Scientific Reports
  • "Longitudinal coupling of momentary stress reactivity and trait neuroticism: Specificity of states, traits, and age period." (2021), published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • "Is Healthy Neuroticism Associated with Health Behaviors? A Coordinated Integrative Data Analysis" (2020), published in Collabra Psychology

Wagner authored books published by Duncker & Humblot, including "Soziale Integration in Europa II." (2021) and "Sozialpolitik im vereinten Deutschland III." (2021).

Best Publications

  • The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP): Scope, Evolution and Enhancements

    Gert Wagner;Joachim Frick;Jürgen Schupp

  • Individual Risk Attitudes: Measurement, Determinants and Behavioral Consequences

    Thomas J. Dohmen;Armin Falk;David Huffman;Uwe Sunde

  • The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) - Evolution, Scope and Enhancements

    Gert G. Wagner;Gert G. Wagner;Joachim R. Frick;Jürgen Schupp;Jürgen Schupp

  • Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms, and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses

    Aysu Okbay;Bart M L Baselmans;Jan-Emmanuel De Neve;Patrick Turley

  • Genome-wide association analyses of risk tolerance and risky behaviors in over 1 million individuals identify hundreds of loci and shared genetic influences

    Richard Karlsson Linnér;Richard Karlsson Linnér;Pietro Biroli;Edward Kong;S. Fleur W. Meddens;S. Fleur W. Meddens

  • Short assessment of the Big Five: robust across survey methods except telephone interviewing

    Frieder R. Lang;Dennis John;Oliver Lüdtke;Jürgen Schupp

  • The English language public use file of the German Socio-Economic Panel

    Richard V. Burkhauser;Gert G. Wagner

  • Seeking Pleasure and Seeking Pain: Differences in Prohedonic and Contra-Hedonic Motivation From Adolescence to Old Age

    Michaela Riediger;Florian Schmiedek;Gert G. Wagner;Ulman Lindenberger

  • The Influence of Environment and Personality on the Affective and Cognitive Component of Subjective Well-being

    Ulrich Schimmack;Jürgen Schupp;Gert G. Wagner

  • Genome-wide analysis identifies 12 loci influencing human reproductive behavior

    Nicola Barban;Rick Jansen;Ronald De Vlaming;Ahmad Vaez;Ahmad Vaez

  • Stability and change in risk-taking propensity across the adult life span.

    Anika K. Josef;David Richter;Gregory R. Samanez-Larkin;Gert G. Wagner

  • Late-life decline in well-being across adulthood in Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States: Something is seriously wrong at the end of life.

    Denis Gerstorf;Nilam Ram;Guy Mayraz;Mira Hidajat

  • Long-running German panel survey shows that personal and economic choices, not just genes, matter for happiness.

    Bruce Headey;Ruud Muffels;Gert G. Wagner

  • Cohort Profile: The Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II)

    Lars Bertram;Anke Böckenhoff;Ilja Demuth;Sandra Düzel

  • Life Satisfaction Shows Terminal Decline in Old Age: Longitudinal Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP).

    Denis Gerstorf;Nilam Ram;Ryne Estabrook;Jürgen Schupp;Jürgen Schupp

  • To what extent do fiscal regimes equalize opportunities for income acquisition among citizens

    John E Roemer;Rolf Aaberge;Ugo Colombino;Johan Fritzell

  • Long-Term Antecedents and Outcomes of Perceived Control

    Frank J. Infurna;Denis Gerstorf;Nilam Ram;Jürgen Schupp

  • Long working hours and depressive symptoms: systematic review and meta-analysis of published studies and unpublished individual participant data

    Marianna Virtanen;Marianna Virtanen;Markus Jokela;Ida Eh Madsen;Linda L Magnusson Hanson

  • Children’s school placement in Germany: does Kindergarten attendance matter?

    C. Katharina Spiess;Felix Büchel;Gert G. Wagner

  • Parental well-being in times of Covid-19 in Germany.

    Mathias Huebener;Sevrin Waights;C. Katharina Spiess;C. Katharina Spiess;Nico A. Siegel

  • Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms, and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses

    Aysu Okbay;Bart M. L. Baselmans;Jan-Emmanuel De Neve;Patrick Turley

  • A Nation-Wide Laboratory - Examining trust and trustworthiness by integrating behavioral experimen

    Ernst Fehr;Urs Fischbacher;Bernhard von Rosenbladt;Jürgen Schupp

Frequent Co-Authors

Jürgen Schupp
Jürgen Schupp German Institute for Economic Research
Denis Gerstorf
Denis Gerstorf Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Nilam Ram
Nilam Ram Stanford University
Ulman Lindenberger
Ulman Lindenberger Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Lars Bertram
Lars Bertram University of Lübeck
Philipp D. Koellinger
Philipp D. Koellinger Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Daniel J. Benjamin
Daniel J. Benjamin University of California, Los Angeles
Michaela Riediger
Michaela Riediger Friedrich Schiller University Jena
James F. Wilson
James F. Wilson University of Edinburgh
André G. Uitterlinden
André G. Uitterlinden Erasmus University Rotterdam

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