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The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP): Scope, Evolution and Enhancements
Wagner, Gert G.; Frick, Joachim R.; Schupp, Jürgen - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007
After the introduction in Section 2, we very briefly sketch out current theoretical and empirical developments in the social sciences. In our view, they all point in the same direction: toward the acute and increasing need for multidisciplinary longitudinal data covering a wide range of living...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017428
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Self-Reported Satisfaction and the Economic Crisis of 2007-10: Or How People in the UK and Germany Perceive a Severe Cyclical Downturn
Mertens, Antje; Beblo, Miriam - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
Self-reported satisfaction measures respond to a great variety of socio-demographic characteristics as well as the job and living environment. In this paper we ask whether the recent financial market crisis has caused a deterioration of satisfaction not only for the unemployed but also for those...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185778
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You Can't Be Happier Than Your Wife: Happiness Gaps and Divorce
Guven, Cahit; Senik, Claudia; Stichnoth, Holger - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts … household. The relation between happiness gaps and divorce may be due to the fact that couples which are unable to transfer … utility are more at risk than others. It may also be the case that assortative mating in terms of happiness baseline …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008474603
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Are Happier People Better Citizens?
Guven, Cahit - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
This paper presents evidence on causal influence of happiness on social capital and trust using German Socio …-Economic Panel. Exploiting the unexplained cross-sectional variation in individual happiness (residuals) in 1984 to eliminate the … neighborhood, and extend more help to others. Residual happiness appears to be an indicator of optimism, and has an inverse U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018718
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Predicting the Trend of Well-Being in Germany: How Much Do Comparisons, Adaptation and Sociability Matter?
Bartolini, Stefano; Bilancini, Ennio; Sarracino, Francesco - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we estimate the variation of subjective well-being experienced by Germans over the last two decades testing the role of some of the major correlates of people's well-being. Our results suggest that the variation of Germans' well-being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399836
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The 60s Turnaround as a Test on the Causal Relationship between Sociability and Happiness
Becchetti, Leonardo; Ricca, Elena Giachin; Pelloni, … - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
positive and significant effect on life satisfaction. Our findings shed some light on the age-happiness pattern. Policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018716
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Sleep Duration and Life Satisfaction
Piper, Alan T. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2015
Sleep is an important part of life, with an individual spending an estimated 32 years of her life asleep. Despite this importance, little is known about life satisfaction and sleep duration. Using German panel data, it is shown that sleep is an important factor for life satisfaction and that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240795
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Schenkungen und Erbschaften im Lebenslauf: vergleichende Längsschnittanalysen zu intergenerationalen Transfers
Leopold, Thomas; Schneider, Thorsten - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
The research on private financial transfers between generations lacks a longitudinal perspective. Gifts as intergenerational transfers inter vivos allow us to study the importance of life course events for the chances of receiving transfers. In Germany, gifts are highly private and leave more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611295
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Eine ökonometrische Analyse der Liquiditätsbeschränkung deutscher Haushalte im Lichte der US-Immobilienkrise
Maderitsch, Robert - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
In dieser Arbeit kommt ein neuer ökonometrischer Ansatz für Paneldaten zum Einsatz, welcher den Umgang mit persistenter, unbeobachtbarer Heterogenität in allgemeinen nichtseparablen und nonparametrischen Konstellationen ermöglicht. Der Ansatz geht zurück auf Hoderlein und White (2009)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003890
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Is Posner Right? An Empirical Test of the Posner Argument for Transferring Health Spending from Old Women to Old Men
Schwarze, Johannes; Wunder, Christoph - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
Posner (1995) proposes the redistribution of health spending from old women to old men to equalize life expectancy. His argument is based on the assumption that the woman's utility is higher if her husband is alive. Using self-reported satisfaction measures from a long-running German panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008740508