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Bowling Alone or Bowling at All? The Effect of Unemployment on Social Participation
Kunze, Lars; Suppa, Nicolai - 2014
This article examines the impact of unemployment on social participation for Germany using the German Socio-Economic Panel. We find significant negative, robust and, for some activities, lasting effects of unemployment on social participation. Causality is established by focussing on plant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010420983
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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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You Don‘t Know what You‘ve got till It‘s Gone! Unemployment and Intertemporal Changes in Self-Reported Life Satisfaction
Klemm, Marcus - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 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/10009385730
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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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Improving housing conditions: Labelled loans in Kenya and Uganda
Choda, Amreen; Schoofs, Annekathrin; Verrinder, Noel - 2020
We evaluate a non-governmental housing microfinance intervention that attempts to improve housing conditions for low income populations by simultaneously offering them a labelled loan and non-financial technical support. Using household survey data from Kenya and Uganda, we first show evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012373296
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Heterogeneity in marginal non-monetary returns to higher education
Kamhöfer, Daniel A.; Schmitz, Hendrik; Westphal, Matthias - 2015
In this paper we estimate the effects of college education on cognitive abilities and health exploiting exogenous … but always positive effects on cognitive skills and homogeneously positive effects for all health outcomes but mental … health, where the effects are around zero throughout. We find that likely mechanisms of positive physical health returns are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404814
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How Does Heterogeneity Shape the Socioeconomic Gradient in Health Satisfaction?
Jones, Andrew M.; Schurer, Stefanie - 2007
, health satisfaction. It is hypothesised that the influence of this heterogeneity varies over levels of health and increases … over the life-cycle. These hypotheses are tested with data on health satisfaction from 22 waves of the German Socioeconomic … fixed effects logit, that allows for individual-specific reporting bias, heterogeneity in health endowments, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264681
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Life-cycle health effects of compulsory schooling
Schmitz, Hendrik; Tawiah, Beatrice Baaba - 2023
We study the effect of education on health (hospital stays, number of diagnosed conditions, self-rated poor health, and … suggest a positive correlation of health and education which increases over the life-cycle. We do not, however, find any … positive local average treatment effects of an additional year of schooling on health or health care utilization for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014293724
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How Does Heterogeneity Shape the Socioeconomic Gradient in Health Satisfaction?
Jones, Andrew M.; Schurer, Stefanie - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2007
, health satisfaction. It is hypothesised that the influence of this heterogeneity varies over levels of health and increases … over the life-cycle. These hypotheses are tested with data on health satisfaction from 22 waves of the German Socioeconomic … fixed effects logit, that allows for individual-specific reporting bias, heterogeneity in health endowments, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561992