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Why is the world getting older? : the influence of happiness on mortality

Guven, Cahit; Saloumidis, Rudolph - 2009

World life expectancy has risen by around 20 years in the last 50 years. This period has also witnessed rising happiness levels around the world suggesting that happiness might be one of the causes behind the decline in mortality. We investigate the relationship between happiness and mortality...

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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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Terminal decline in well-being : the role of social orientation

Gerstorf, Denis; Hoppmann, Christiane A.; Löckenhoff, … - 2016

Well-being development at the end of life is often characterized by steep deteriorations, but individual differences in these terminal declines are substantial and not yet well understood. This study moved beyond the typical consideration of health predictors and explored the role of social...

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A penalized spline estimator for fixed effects panel data models

Pütz, Peter; Kneib, Thomas - 2016

Estimating nonlinear effects of continuous covariates by penalized splines is well established for regressions with cross-sectional data as well as for panel data regressions with random effects. Penalized splines are particularly advantageous since they enable both the estimation of unknown...

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Income or leisure? : on the hidden benefits of (un-)employment

Chadi, Adrian; Hetschko, Clemens - 2017 - This version: August 8, 2017

We study the usually assumed trade-off between income and leisure in labor supply decisions using comprehensive German panel data. We compare non-employed individuals after plant closures with employed people regarding both income and time use as well as their subjective perceptions of these two...

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She's leaving home : a large sample investigation of the empty nest syndrome

Piper, Alan T.; Jackson, Ian - 2017

This study considers life satisfaction in relation to the empty nest syndrome, which is a situation where there are feelings of loss or loneliness for mothers and/or fathers following the departure of the last child from the parental home. In particular, the investigation considers the...

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Terminal decline in well-being : the role of multi-indicator constellations of physical health and psychosocial correlates

Brandmaier, Andreas M.; Ram, Nilam; Wagner, Gert G.; … - 2017

Well-being is often relatively stable across adulthood and old age, but typically exhibits pronounced deteriorations and vast individual differences in the terminal phase of life. However, the factors contributing to these differences are not well understood. Using up to 25-year annual...

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Levels of and changes in life satisfaction predict mortality hazards : disentangling the role of physical health, perceived control, and social orientation

Hülür, Gizem; Heckhausen, Jutta; Hoppmann, Christiane A. - 2017

It is well-documented that well-being typically evinces precipitous decrements at the end of life. However, research has primarily taken a postdictive approach by knowing the outcome (date of death) and aligning in retrospect how well-being has changed for people with documented death events. In...

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