objective grip strength measure, we provide evidence of the presence of income-related reporting heterogeneity in generic health … of such health inequality measures as the concentration index (CI) depends crucially on the underlying health measure …. The highest degree of inequality is found when dichotomized subjective health measures like health satisfaction or self …

rich to answer this question. We identify the key predictors for belonging to the top 1 percent of income, wealth, and both …Who makes it to the top? We use the leading, socio-economic survey in Germany supplemented by extensive data on the …

We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre-government income distribution at the regional level, to … increases individual well-being. We find that Germans are inequality averse over the entire income distribution. However … excess burden on middle-income earners. The paper uses data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study (GSOEP) from 1985 to …

across years), and use it to compare levels and patterns of relative poverty in the USA, Great Britain and Germany during the … 1990s. The higher aggregate poverty rates in the USA and in Britain relative to Germany were mostly accounted for by higher …

health status. The paper presents estimates of the equivalent income change that would be necessary to change general … satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in health satisfaction would do. In other words, we estimate the income … income equivalent for various diseases. This method uses answers to well-being and health satisfaction questions as posed in …

visibility in the deprivation of goods and assets vis-à-vis income behind perceptions of relative deprivation. We rely on … wealth by aggregating visible goods and assets using principal component weights. We find that relative deprivation in … visible wealth has a ten percentage point higher explanatory power for reporting a high level of perceived deprivation than …

, including Germany. Despite the relevance of child health for child development and later life success, the effect of early … of a large daycare expansion in Germany on children's age-specific mental and physical health outcomes. Based on a unique … daycare attendance on health has received little attention in the economic literature. In this study, I investigate the impact …

While wind power is considered key in the transition towards net zero, there are concerns about adverse health impacts … all wind turbines in Germany and exploit their staggered rollout over two decades for identification. We do not find … evidence of negative effects on general, mental, or physical health in the 12-Item Short Form Survey (SF12), nor on self …

. Positive health effects as well as networking mechanisms serve as explanations for the "alcohol-income puzzle." Using … individual-based microdata from the GSOEP for 2006, we confirm that this relationship exists for Germany as well. More … importantly, we shed light on the alcohol-income puzzle by analyzing, for the first time, the association between beverage …

The idea of higher wealth taxes to finance the mounting public debt in the wake of the financial crises is gaining … net wealth that is currently on the German political agenda. We use survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP …) and estimate the net wealth distribution at the very top, based on publicly available information about very rich Germans …