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Does Capability Deprivation Hurt? – Evidence from German Panel Data
Suppa, Nicolai - 2012
The present paper explores the link between poverty as capability deprivation and current life satisfaction. Using German panel data, I examine both whether capability deprivation does hurt and whether individuals eventually adapt. To detect capability deprivation I suggest relying on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287367
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Does Capability Deprivation Hurt? – Evidence from German Panel Data
Suppa, Nicolai - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2012
The present paper explores the link between poverty as capability deprivation and current life satisfaction. Using German panel data, I examine both whether capability deprivation does hurt and whether individuals eventually adapt. To detect capability deprivation I suggest relying on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010561277
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Consumption smoothing and the welfare cost of uncertainty
Alem, Yonas; Colmer, Jonathan - 2018
Separating the effects of uncertainty from realised events, and identifying the welfare effects of uncertainty, present a number of empirical challenges. Combining individuallevel panel data from rural Ethiopia with high-resolution meteorological data, we introduce a new proxy for income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011946606
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Heterogeneity in the Intergenerational Transmission of Alcohol Consumption – A Quantile Regression Approach
Schmidt, Christoph M.; Tauchmann, Harald - 2010
- which is frequently found to be of positive sign - exhibits a certain pattern of heterogeneity. In particular, if this … German survey data. The supposed pattern of heterogeneity is indeed found in the data, at least for daily parental drinking …. In addition, the intergenerational transmission of alcohol consumption exhibits gender-specific heterogeneity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269991
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Heterogeneity in the Intergenerational Transmission of Alcohol Consumption – A Quantile Regression Approach
Schmidt, Christoph M.; Tauchmann, Harald - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2010
– which is frequently found to be of positive sign – exhibits a certain pattern of heterogeneity. In particular, if this eff … German survey data. The supposed pattern of heterogeneity is indeed found in the data, at least for daily parental drinking …. In addition, the intergenerational transmission of alcohol consumption exhibits gender-specific heterogeneity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008520835
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Discrete Heterogeneity in the Impact of Health Shocks on Labour Market Outcomes
Schurer, Stefanie - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2008
heterogeneity in shaping the effects of health shocks on labour supply is theoretically modelled by adopting the Grossman (1972 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561971
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Social Jealousy and Stigma: Negative Externalities of Social Assistance Payments in Germany
Kassenböhmer, Sonja C.; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 2009
This paper examines the role of social assistance payments (SAP or Sozialhilfe) in determining levels of life satisfaction in Germany using the SOEP 1995-2004. We find strong evidence that individuals in Germany are negatively influenced by increased SAP payments controlling for income, whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274379
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Unemployment as a social norm revisited: Novel evidence from German counties
Kunze, Lars; Suppa, Nicolai - 2016
Unemployed individuals may regain identity utility through coping strategies, which however vary with age and gender. Using highly detailed German county level data, we test whether the social norm effect of unemployment is age-dependent. The wellbeing differential between the unemployed and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442044
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You Don't Know what You've got till It's Gone! Unemployment and Intertemporal Changes in Self-Reported Life Satisfaction
Klemm, Marcus - 2011
This paper uses concurrently and - for the first time - retrospectively reported life satisfaction from the 1984 to 1987 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel to study the importance of different comparison standards for the empirical correlation of unemployment and subjective life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287425
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Job Characteristics and Subjective Well-Being in Australia – A Capability Approach Perspective
Suppa, Nicolai - 2012
's dissatisfaction, and (iv) controlling for unobserved heterogeneity is crucial in such exercises. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290711