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Intervieweffekte bei der Erhebung des Körpergewichts: die Qualität von umfragebasierten Gewichtsangaben
Kroh, Martin - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004
While surveying measured weight is widely unpractical in national samples, self-reported weight is a simple and inexpensive method of collecting data. This paper deals with data quality of reported body weight in the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). Previous research shows that data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068865
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In Vino Pecunia?: The Association between Beverage-Specific Drinking Behavior and Wages
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Grabka, Markus M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
. Positive health effects as well as networking mechanisms serve as explanations for the "alcohol-income puzzle." Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068709
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Gütesiegel als neues Instrument der Qualitätssicherung von Humandienstleistungen: Gründe, Anforderungen und Umsetzungsüberlegungen am Beispiel von Kindertageseinrichtungen
Spieß, Katharina; Tietze, Wolfgang - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2001
Although there is general consensus that the quality of human services has to be regulated, there is only limited discussion regarding the fundamental nature of these regulations and how they might in turn be altered to produce better services. This paper focuses on one human service in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068769
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The Subjective Costs of Health Losses Due to Chronic Diseases: An Alternative Model for Monetary Appraisal
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2001
This paper proposes a method to evaluate health losses or gains by looking at the impact on well-being of a change in … health status. The paper presents estimates of the equivalent income change that would be necessary to change general … satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in health satisfaction would do. In other words, we estimate the income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068960
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Measurement of Health, the Sensitivity of the Concentration Index, and Reporting Heterogeneity
Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
of such health inequality measures as the concentration index (CI) depends crucially on the underlying health measure …. The highest degree of inequality is found when dichotomized subjective health measures like health satisfaction or self …-assessed health (SAH) are employed. Measures of medical care usage like doctor visits result in substantially lower concentration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069013
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The Effect of Prenatal Stress on Birth Weight: Evidence from the al-Aqsa Intifada
Mansour, Hani; Rees, Daniel I. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
of stress, on pregnancy outcomes. Drawing on data from the 2004 Palestinian Demographic and Health Survey, we examine the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008855328
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Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005
, sports and leisure, career, and health - the paper also studies the impact of context on risk attitudes, finding a strong but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068645
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The Private Equity Premium Puzzle Revisited: New Evidence on the Role of Heterogeneous Risk Attitudes
Fossen, Frank M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
The empirical finding that entrepreneurs tend to invest a large share of their wealth in their own firms despite comparably low returns and high risk has become known as the private equity premium puzzle. This paper provides evidence supporting the hypothesis that lower risk aversion of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068887
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Stated and Revealed Heterogeneous Risk Preferences in Educational Choice
Fossen, Frank M.; Glocker, Daniela - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014
Stated survey measures of risk preferences are increasingly being used in the literature, and they have been compared to revealed risk aversion primarily by means of experiments such as lottery choice tasks. In this paper, we investigate educational choice, which involves the comparison of risky...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010737594
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Personality Characteristics and the Decision to Become and Stay Self-Employed
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
This paper systematically investigates whether different kinds of personality characteristics influence entrepreneurial development. On the basis of a large, representative household panel survey, we examine the extent to which the Big Five traits and further personality characteristics, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008869171