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Pooling and sharing income within households : a satisfaction approach
Elsas, Susanne - 2013
Standard household economics assumes that couples pool their incomes and share the sum equally, which is a necessary … advancement of this paper is the use of panel data, which enables me to account for unobserved heterogeneity at the household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010188880
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Monitoring subjective well-being : some new empirical evidence for Germany ; [paper prepared for the 33rd General Conference of The International Association for Research in Income...
Oltmanns, Erich; Braakmann, Albert; Schmidt, Joachim - 2014
What is subjective well-being influenced by? Since the Report by the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress by Stiglitz, Sen and Fitoussi a huge number of studies has raised this question - with partly different findings. In addition, international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010421655
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How does education improve cognitive skills? : instructional time versus timing of instruction
Dahmann, Sarah - 2015
This paper investigates two mechanisms through which education may affect cognitive skills in adolescence: the role of instructional quantity and the timing ofinstruction with respect to age. To identify causal effects, I exploit a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011287017
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Analyzing zero returns to education in Germany : heterogeneous effects and skill formation
Kamhöfer, Daniel A.; Schmitz, Hendrik - 2013
We analyze the effect of education on wages using German Socio-Economic Panel data and regional variation in mandatory years of schooling and the supply of schools. This allows us to estimate more than one local average treatment effect and heterogeneous effects for different groups of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010197409
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The intergenerational transmission of cognitive and non-cognitive skills during adolescence and young adulthood
Anger, Silke - 2012
This study examines cognitive and non-cognitive skills and their transmission from parents to children as one potential candidate to explain the intergenerational link of socio-economic status. Using representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, we contrast the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009613725
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Center-based care and parenting activities
Jessen, Jonas; Spieß, C. Katharina; Waights, Sevrin - 2021
We examine the relationship between parenting activities and center-based care using time diary and survey data for mothers in Germany. While mothers using center-based care spend significantly less time in the presence of their child, we find that differences in the time spent on specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012798269
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Life expectancy and parental education in Germany
Huebener, Mathias - 2019
vocational training nor the occupational position of the parents in childhood, which both correlate with household income, can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011981368
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Behind the curtain : the within-household sharing of income
Elsas, Susanne - 2011
The distribution of personal income in a society depends strongly on the within-household distribution of income …. Nevertheless, little is known about this phenomenon. I analyze the sharing of income among household partners from a welfare … economic perspective. Measures of financial satisfaction for both household partners are used to gain information about the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009154498
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Capabilities and choices : do they make Sen'se for understanding objective and subjective well-being?
Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Headey, Bruce - 2011
In Sen's Capability Approach (CA) well-being can be defined as the freedom of choice to achieve the things in life which one has reason to value most for his or her personal life. Capabilities are in Sen's vocabulary therefore the real freedoms people have or the opportunities available to them....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009158055
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How job changes affect people's lives : evidence from subjective well-being data
Chadi, Adrian; Hetschkeo, Clemens - 2015
For representative German panel data, we document that voluntary job switching is associated with higher levels of life satisfaction, though only for some time, whereas forced job changes do not affect life satisfaction clearly. Using plant closures as an exogenous trigger of switching to a new...
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