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Measuring trust : experiments and surveys in contrast and combination

Naef, Michael; Schupp, Jürgen - 2009

Trust is a concept that has attracted - significant attention in economic theory and research within the last two … experiments claiming to measure trust, and how these different measures are related. Using nationally representative data, we test … a commonly used experimental measure of trust for robustness to a number of interferences, finding it to be mostly …

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The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) : scope, evolution and enhancements

Wagner, Gert G.; Frick, Joachim R.; Schupp, Jürgen - 2007

After the introduction in Section 2, we very briefly sketch out current theoretical and empirical developments in the social sciences. In our view, they all point in the same direction: toward the acute and increasing need for multidisciplinary longitudinal data covering a wide range of living...

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A nation-wide laboratory: Examining trust and trustworthiness by integrating behavioral experiments into representative surveys

Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; von Rosenbladt, Bernhard; … - 2003

the power of our approach with the analysis of trust and trustworthiness in Germany by combining representative survey … elicit people's trust correlate well with behaviorally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 65, highly … favoring the Social Democratic Party or the Christian Democratic Party exhibit more trust. People above the age of 65 and those …

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Validating an ultra-short survey measure of patience

Vischer, Thomas; Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David - 2012

This study presents results of the validation of an ultra-short survey measure of patience included in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Survey responses predict intertemporal choice behavior in incentive-compatible decisions in a representative sample of the German adult population. --...

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The social comparison scale : testing the validity, reliability, and applicability of the Iowa-Netherlands Comparison Orientation Measure (INCOM) on the German population

Schneider, Simone; Schupp, Jürgen - 2011

Social comparisons are an essential source of information about the self. Research in social psychology has shown individual variation in the tendency toward comparison with other people's opinions and abilities, raising the question of whether social comparisons are driven by psychological...

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Methods effects in factorial surveys : an analysis of respondents' comments, interviewers' assessments, and response behavior

Sauer, Carsten; Auspurg, Katrin; Hinz, Thomas; Liebig, … - 2014 - Rev.

This paper describes the implementation of a factorial survey within the SOEP-Pretest of 2008 and investigates (1) respondents' comments about the vignettes, (2) interviewers' assessments of respondents comprehension and willingness to answer, and (3) response behavior regarding response time,...

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The emotional timeline of unemployment : anticipation, reaction, and adaption

Scheve, Christian von; Esche, Frederike; Schupp, Jürgen - 2013

Unemployment continues to be one of the major challenges in industrialized societies. Aside from its economic dimensions and societal repercussions, questions concerning the individual experience of unemployment have recently attracted increasing attention. Although many studies have documented...

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Gerechtigkeitsprobleme im Wohlfahrtsstaat : Besteuerung, wohlfahrtsstaatliche Transfers und die Gerechtigkeit des eigenen Erwerbseinkommens

Liebig, Stefan; Schupp, Jürgen - 2007

The article discusses the conflict of goals between fair compensation for performance and equitable support based on need in modern welfare states, which is a subject of controversy in various disciplines. It answers the question of the extent to which this policy problem of modern welfare...

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Life satisfaction and relative income : perceptions and evidence

Mayraz, Guy; Wagner, Gert G.; Schupp, Jürgen - 2009

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...

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A factorial survey on the justice of earnings within the SOEP-Pretest 2008

Sauer, Carsten; Liebig, Stefan; Auspurg, Katrin; Hinz, … - 2009

In the 2008 Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) Pretest, the factorial survey method was tested for the first time for use in the SOEP longitudinal study. In this paper, we describe the construction and application of the vignette module, which has its origins in the field of justice research and...

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