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Adaptation to poverty in long-run panel data
Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Ghislandi, Simone - 2014
poverty. We use panel data on almost 54,000 individuals living in Germany from 1985 to 2012 to show first that life …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010440553
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Worries across time and age in Germany : bringing together open- and close-ended questions
Rohrer, Julia M.; Bruemmer, Martin; Schupp, Jürgen; … - 2017
We investigate how worries in Germany change across time and age, drawing on both closed-ended questions (which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011694829
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Alternative values-based "recipes" for Life Satisfaction : German results with an Australian replication
Headey, Bruce; Wagner, Gert G. - 2018
everyone, or at least everyone in the West. In this paper, analysing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, with a limited … replication based on Australian panel data, we estimate models of alternative "recipes" for LS. There appear to be at least four …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011912913
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Sundays are blue : aren't they? ; the day-of-the-week effect on subjective well-being and socio-economic status
Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter - 2009
using a large panel data set and controlling for observed and unobserved individual characteristics, we find a large day …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003918937
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Direct evidence for income comparisons and subjective well-being across reference groups
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2015
This note provides evidence for the relationship between income comparisons and subjective well-being (SWB), using novel German data on self-reported comparison intensity and perceived relative income for seven reference groups. We find negative correlations between comparison intensity and SWB...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347274
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Towards a theory of life satisfaction accounting for stability, change and volatility in 25-year life trajectories in Germany
Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A. - 2016
is now regarded as inadequate since several national panel surveys show that substantial minorities of respondents have … trajectories of respondents in the German Socio-Economic Panel who reported their LS for 25 consecutive years in 1990-2014. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011502854
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The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health and subjective well-being of workers: an event study based on high-frequency panel data
Schmidtke, Julia; Hetschko, Clemens; Schöb, Ronnie; … - 2021
Using individual monthly panel data from December 2018 to December 2020, we estimate the impact of the Covid-19 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012603926
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How threatening are transformations of happiness scales to subjective wellbeing research?
Kaiser, Caspar F.; Vendrik, Maarten C. - 2020
Two recent papers argue that many results based on ordinal reports of happiness can be reversed with suitable monotonic increasing transformations of the associated happiness scale (Bond and Lang 2019; Schröder and Yitzhaki 2017). If true, empirical research utilizing such reports is in trouble....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322174
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The impact of COVID-19 on subjective well-being: evidence from Singapore
Cheng, Terence Chai; Kim, Seonghoon; Koh, Kanghyock - 2020
We provide novel evidence on how the COVID-19 global health and economic crisis is affecting overall life satisfaction and domain-specific satisfaction using data from a monthly longitudinal survey of middle-aged and older Singaporeans. Using a difference-in-differences framework, we document...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290922
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Are retirees more satisfied? : anticipation and adaptation effects of retirement on subjective well-being : a panel analysis for Germany
Merz, Joachim - 2018
entrance into retirement. In particular, with the individual longitudinal data and 33 waves of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP …) and the appropriate microeconometric causal fixed effects robust panel methods we ask and quantify if actual life … prominent events - is also to discover for life satisfaction before and after retirement in Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011913494