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Trajectories of life satisfaction : positive feedback loops may explain why life satisfaction changes in multi-year waves, rather than oscillating around a set-point

Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A. - 2014

Long term panel data enable researchers to construct Life Satisfaction (LS) trajectories for individuals over time. In this paper we analyse the trajectories of respondents in the German Socio-Economic Panel who recorded their LS for 20 consecutive years in 1991 - 2010. Previous research has...

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Soziale Unterschiede in der Lebenserwartung : Möglichkeiten auf Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels

Kroll, Lars Eric; Lampert, Thomas - 2008

This paper describes the potential of analysing socio-economic inequalities in life expectancy using the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP). It includes a short review on available data sources and recent evidence on inequalities in life expectancy for Germany. Subsequently the...

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Monitoring subjective well-being : some new empirical evidence for Germany ; [paper prepared for the 33rd General Conference of The International Association for Research in Income and Wealth Rotterdam, Netherlands, August 24-30, 2014]

Oltmanns, Erich; Braakmann, Albert; Schmidt, Joachim - 2014

What is subjective well-being influenced by? Since the Report by the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress by Stiglitz, Sen and Fitoussi a huge number of studies has raised this question - with partly different findings. In addition, international...

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Dimensions of quality of life in Germany : measured by plain text responses in a representative survey (SOEP)

Wagner, Gert G.; Bruemmer, Martin; Glemser, Axel; … - 2017

This paper demonstrates how quality of life can be measured by plain text in a representative survey, the German Socio … the state of the European Union, long-term climate change but also the national debt or problems with the quality of …

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Measuring wellbeing in the SOEP

Schimmack, Ulrich - 2008

I define wellbeing as preference realization. Wellbeing can be measured with affective (the amount of pleasant versus unpleasant experiences) and cognitive (satisfaction with life in general and life domains) measures. Since its inception 25 years ago, the SOEP has included cognitive measures of...

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Rising waters, falling well-being : the effects of the 2013 East German flood on subjective well-being

Fernando, Sachintha; Kolb, Katharina; Wunder, Christoph - 2025

This paper employs a panel event study design to examine the causal effects of the 2013 flood disaster in East Germany on subjective well-being. We merge geo-spatial flood data with longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to identify individuals in affected municipalities....

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Information asymmetries between parents and educators in German childcare institutions

Camehl, Georg; Schober, Pia S.; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2017

unique extension of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). It allows us to compare quality perceptions by parents and … rate the same quality measures. We detect considerable information asymmetries between these groups which differ across … quality measures but little by parental socio-economic background or center characteristics. Our findings imply that …

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Are senior entrepreneurs happier than who? : the role of income and health

Fritsch, Michael; Sorgner, Alina; Wyrwich, Michael - 2023

We propose an extension of the standard occupational choice model to analyze the life satisfaction of senior entrepreneurs as compared to paid employees and particularly retirees in Germany. The analysis identifies income and health status as main factors that shape the relationship between...

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Artificial intelligence and workers' well-being

Giuntella, Osea; König, Johannes; Stella, Luca - 2023

This study explores the relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and workers’ well-being and mental health using longitudinal survey data from Germany (2000-2020). We construct a measure of individual exposure to AI technology based on the occupation in which workers in our sample...

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Behind the curtain : the within-household sharing of income

Elsas, Susanne - 2011

The distribution of personal income in a society depends strongly on the within-household distribution of income. Nevertheless, little is known about this phenomenon. I analyze the sharing of income among household partners from a welfare economic perspective. Measures of financial satisfaction...

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