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Well-Being over the Life Span: Semiparametric Evidence from British and German Longitudinal Data

Wunder, Christoph; Wiencierz, Andrea; Schwarze, Johannes; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

This paper applies semiparametric regression models using penalized splines to investigate the profile of well-being over the life span. Splines have the advantage that they do not require a priori assumptions about the form of the curve. Using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS)...

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Assets, Shocks, and Poverty Traps in Rural Mozambique

Giesbert, Lena; Schindler, Kati - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

Using a micro-level approach to poverty traps, this paper explores welfare dynamics among households in post-war rural Mozambique. Conceptually, the paper builds on an asset-based approach to poverty and tests empirically, with household panel data, for the existence of a poverty trap. Findings...

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Are People Inequality Averse, and Do They Prefer Redistribution by the State?: Evidence from German Longitudinal Data on Life Satisfaction

Schwarze, Johannes; Härpfer, Marco - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002

We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre-government income distribution at the regional level, to … estimate the degree of inequality aversion. In addition, we investigate whether a reduction in inequality by the state … increases individual well-being. We find that Germans are inequality averse over the entire income distribution. However …

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Missing Income Data in the German SOEP: Incidence, Imputation and its Impact on the Income Distribution

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

inequality measures based only on truly observed information to those derived from all (i.e., observed and imputed) observations …, we find an increase in inequality due to imputation and this effect appears to be relevant in both tails of the …

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Dealing with Incomplete Household Panel Data in Inequality Research

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

. Not only can item nonresponse and unit nonresponse impair important outcome measures for inequality research such as total … substantive results in the inequality research. We find indications of substantial bias on income inequality and poverty as well …

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