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Effect of labor division between wife and husband on the risk of divorce : evidence from German data

Kraft, Kornelius; Neimann, Stefanie - 2009 - Current draft: October 2009

Using German panel data from 1984 to 2007, we analyze the impact of labor division between husband and wife on the risk of divorce. Gary Becker's theory of marriage predicts that specialization in domestic and market work, respectively, reduces the risk of separation. Traditionally, the...

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Co-pay and feel okay : evidence of illusory health gains from a health insurance reform

Paloyo, Alfredo R. - 2009

of Germany in 2004 as a source of exogenous variation. Among others, the reform introduced a co-payment for ambulatory … examined using the reform of the public health insurance system of Germany in 2004 as a source of exogenous variation. Among …

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20 Years of German unification : evidence on income convergence and heterogeneity

Brück, Tilman; Peters, Heiko - 2009

We analyse the convergence and heterogeneity of living standards between East and West Germany since unification. Based …, including retirees and the unemployed, of East and West Germany over the fifteen years for which data are available. Using a … highest negative income gap. This probably reflects out-migration from East Germany by the young and highly skilled. On the …

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Children, happiness and taxation

Becchetti, Leonardo; Giachin Ricca, Elena; Pelloni, … - 2009

Empirical analyses on the determinants of life satisfaction often include the impact of the number of children variable among controls without fully discriminating between its two (socio-relational and pecuniary) components. In our empirical analysis on the German Socioeconomic Panel we show...

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Implementation of funding for the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) : a personal recollection

Schäfers, Bernhard - 2009

The SOEP success story was not conceivable at its inception. SOEP's institutionalization is therefore a lesson demonstrating that it is not always possible to say - as is so often required of research proposals today - how a project will develop before it has even begun, and what significance it...

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Why are middle-aged people so depressed? : evidence from West Germany

Brockmann, Hilke (contributor) - 2009

Does happiness vary with age? The evidence is inconclusive. Some studies show happiness to increase with age (Diener et al. 1999; Argyle 2001). Others hold that the association is U-shaped with either highest depression rates (Mroczek and Christian, 1998; Blanchflower and Oswald, 2008) or highest...

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A factorial survey on the justice of earnings within the SOEP-Pretest 2008

Sauer, Carsten; Liebig, Stefan; Auspurg, Katrin; Hinz, … - 2009

In the 2008 Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) Pretest, the factorial survey method was tested for the first time for use in the SOEP longitudinal study. In this paper, we describe the construction and application of the vignette module, which has its origins in the field of justice research and...

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Triggers and determinants of severe household indebtedness in Germany

Keese, Matthias - 2009

Overindebted private households have created economic and political concern. Using measures of relative (over-) indebtedness which relate household income and debt services to different concepts of subsistence levels, this paper investigates whether severe household indebtedness is driven by...

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Precautionary and entrepreneurial saving : new evidence from German households

Fossen, Frank M.; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2009

without controlling for heterogeneity. This paper provides evidence for Germany based on representative panel data including …

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Expected future earnings, taxation, and university enrollment : a microeconometric model with uncertainty

Fossen, Frank M.; Glocker, Daniela - 2009

revenue-neutral, flat-rate tax reform with an unchanged basic tax allowance would increase enrollment rates for men in Germany …

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