Using data from national socio-economic panel surveys in Australia, Britain and Germany, this paper analyzes the … accepted theory of SWB, set-point theory. This theory holds that adult SWB is stable in the medium and long term, although … temporary fluctuations occur due to life events. Set-point theory has come under increasing criticism in recent years, primarily …

SOEP, an ongoing, nationally representative longitudinal study in Germany. Compared to people raised in families …

partial support to the role (scarcity-expansion) theory and the combination pressure thesis while at the same time challenging … set-point theory. …

Trotz steigender Wirtschaftsleistung hat sich die Lebenszufriedenheit in Deutschland seit Beginn der 90er Jahre nicht …, geben. Auch die Vereinten Nationen und die EU beschäftigen sich neuerdings intensiv mit dieser Frage. Für Deutschland gab es …

in two countries (the UK and Germany using the German Socio-Economic Panel and the British Household Panel Survey). We …

sectional data from Germany (GSOEP 2006), UK (BHPS 2005), and Australia (HILDA 2007). We examine whether there is evidence on … Germany, using a differences-in-differences methodology, I find that non-overweight/non-obese individuals are on average 0 …