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Choices Which Change Life Satisfaction: Revising SWB Theory to Account for Change
Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud; Wagner, Gert G. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
on life satisfaction. The results have negative implications for the still dominant theory of SWB, set-point theory. This … theory holds that adult SWB does not change in the medium or long term, although temporary fluctuations occur due to specific … life events. Set-point theory has come under increasing criticism in recent years, primarily due to unmistakable evidence …
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Children, Kitchen, Church: Does Ethnicity Matter?
Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
Gender role attitudes are well-known determinants of female labor supply. This paper examines the strength of those attitudes using time diaries on childcare, food management and religious activities provided by the British Time Use Survey. Given the low labor force participation of females from...
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Who Does What in a Household after Genocide?: Evidence from Rwanda
Schindler, Kati - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
. Third, the local marriage market impacts the division of labor. Young, unmarried women engage more intensely in typical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008694063
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Mortality and Survivors' Consumption
Grimm, Michael - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
In developing countries illness shocks can have a severe impact on household income. Few studies have so fare examined the effects of mortality. The major difference between illness and mortality shocks is that a death of a household member does not only induce direct costs such as medical and...
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Smoke Signals: The Intergenerational Transmission of Smoking Behavior
Bantle, Christian; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002
In this paper, we investigate the intergenerational transmission of smoking behavior from parents to their children using data from the German Socio- Economic Panel, surveyed in 1999 including 813 youths aged 16 through 19. We find strong evidence, that parental smoking significantly increases...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963876
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Intergenerational Economic Mobility and Assortative Mating
Ermisch, John; Francesconi, Marco; Siedler, Thomas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004
We use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and the British Household Panel Survey to estimate the extent of intergenerational economic mobility in a framework that highlights the role played by assortative mating. We find that assortative mating plays an important role. On average about...
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Does Intermarriage Pay Off?: A Panel Data Analysis
Nottmeyer, Olga - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
from intermarriage vanish and do not differ from premiums from marriage between immigrants. However, immigrants who …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008490046
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Childhood Family Structure and Schooling Outcomes: Evidence for Germany
Francesconi, Marco; Jenkins, Stephen P.; Siedler, Thomas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
We analyse the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common unobserved determinants of family structure and...
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Measuring State Dependence in Individual Poverty Status: Are there Feedback Effects to Employment Decisions and Household Composition?
Biewen, Martin - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004
Using a sample of prime-aged men from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this paper examines the effects of past poverty experience on future poverty status, future employment status and household composition. The empirical results suggest that even after controlling for observed and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069002
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A Lost Generation? Long Term Socioeconomic Outcomes in Orphans
Bozzoli, Carlos - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
Previous research on orphanhood has established that parental death has a negative effect in terms of school enrollment and grade progression, but the relation between orphanhood and socioeconomic outcomes in young adults has been largely ignored in the literature. In this paper, I use a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008682203