There are strong two-way links between parent and child happiness (life satisfaction), even for 'children' who have grown up, moved to their own home and partnered themselves. German panel evidence shows that transmission of (un)happiness from parents to children is partly due to transmission of...

Using a unique dataset we study both the actual and self-perceived relationship between subjective well-being and income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of questions than in previous studies. In questions inserted into a...

Die Menge der für Forschungszwecke zur Verfügung stehenden Daten vergrößert sich beständig (King, 2011). Jedoch werden unter Daten in den verschiedenen wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen ganz unterschiedliche Dinge gefasst. Aus dem lateinischen kommend bezeichnet ein Datum zunächst einmal...