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Eine ökonometrische Analyse der Liquiditätsbeschränkung deutscher Haushalte im Lichte der US-Immobilienkrise
Maderitsch, Robert - 2011
In dieser Arbeit kommt ein neuer ökonometrischer Ansatz für Paneldaten zum Einsatz, welcher den Umgang mit persistenter, unbeobachtbarer Heterogenität in allgemeinen nichtseparablen und nonparametrischen Konstellationen ermöglicht. Der Ansatz geht zurück auf Hoderlein und White (2009)....
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Using geographically referenced data on environmental exposures for public health research : a feasibility study based on the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP)
Voigtländer, Sven; Goebel, Jan; Claßen, Thomas; Wurm, … - 2011
Background: In panel datasets information on environmental exposures is scarce. Thus, our goal was to probe the use of area-wide geographically referenced data for air pollution from an external data source in the analysis of physical health. Methods: The study population comprised SOEP...
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Regional unemployment and norm-induced effects on life satisfaction
Chadi, Adrian - 2011
While rising unemployment generally reduces people's happiness, researchers argue that there is a compensating social-norm effect for the unemployed individual, who might suffer less when it is more common to be unemployed. This empirical study, however, rejects this thesis for German panel data...
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Towards a multidimensional poverty index for Germany : parents' employment and children's school success in Germany
Suppa, Nicolai - 2015
This paper compiles a multidimensional poverty index for Germany. Drawing on the capability approach as conceptual …
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Sleep duration and life satisfaction
Piper, Alan T. - 2015
Sleep is an important part of life, with an individual spending an estimated 32 years of her life asleep. Despite this importance, little is known about life satisfaction and sleep duration. Using German panel data, it is shown that sleep is an important factor for life satisfaction and that...
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Control strivings in the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)
Schöllgen, Ina; Gerstorf, Denis; Heckhausen, Jutta - 2014
The Motivational Theory of Life-Span Development (MTD) identifies motivational and self-regulatory strategies that … people use to meet the challenges they face throughout life. The theory distinguishes control strivings related to goal … this report, we first present key concepts and principles of MTD and a brief overview of research using the theory. This …
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Quality of life and inequality
Krause, Peter - 2015
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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
An adequate theory of Life Satisfaction (LS) needs to take account of both factors that tend to stabilise LS and those … that change it. The most widely accepted theory in the recent past – set-point theory – focussed solely on stability … (Brickman and Campbell, 1971; Lykken and Tellegen, 1996). That theory is now regarded as inadequate by most researchers, given …
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Do immigrants suffer more from job loss? : unemployment and subjective well-being in Germany
Leopold, Liliya; Leopold, Thomas; Lechner, Clemens M. - 2016
This study asked whether immigrants suffer more from job loss than German natives do. Compositional, psychosocial, and normative differences between these groups suggest that various factors intensifying the negative impact of unemployment on subjective well-being are either more prevalent, more...
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Econometric analysis of ratings : with an application to health and wellbeing
Studer, Raphael; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2016
We propose a new non-linear regression model for rating dependent variables. The rating scale model accounts for the upper and lower bounds of ratings. Parametric and semi-parametric estimation is discussed. An application investigates the relationship between stated health satisfaction and...
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