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and Germany and suggest that up to two, children increase happiness, and mostly among those who postpone childbearing …
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Poverty line definitions in use often lack a solid scientific foundation. This paper proposes to exploit data on income satisfaction to construct an evidence-based poverty line. The poverty line is identified by using its assumed unique property to explain income dissatisfaction best among all...
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Individuals are expected to mature with increasing age, but it is not yet fully understood which factors contribute to this maturation process. Using data of a representative sample of Germans (N = 14,718) who gave information about their Big Five personality traits twice over a period of 4...
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We show that personality traits mediate the effect of income on Life Satisfaction. The effect is strong in the case of Neuroticism, which measures the sensitivity to threat and punishment, in both the British Household Panel Survey and the German Socioeconomic Panel. Neuroticism increases the...
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Using data from three European countries, this paper investigates whether self-reported satisfaction data are subject to panel conditioning or a panel effect, that is, whether answers depend on whether one has previously participated in the panel. The analysis proposes a way to account for panel...
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Western Germany after the German reunification in 1989. We suspect that the gains or losses in subjective well-being after … the incomes of their former peers in East Germany and the relatively higher earnings of their new peers in West Germany … Germany after the reunification; a deviation from the Easterlins' paradox. -- Migration ; subjective well-being ; happiness …
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