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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010380533
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011632576
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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...
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010421655
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011634000
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011598936
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Information asymmetries between parents and educators in German childcare institutions
Camehl, Georg F.; 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011747259
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Lebenszufriedenheit und Wohlbefinden in Deutschland : Studie zur Konstruktion eines Lebenszufriedenheitsindikators
Suntum, Ulrich van; Prinz, Aloys; Uhde, Nicole - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008858404
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Choices which change life satisfaction : similar results for Australia, Britain and Germany
Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2011
Using data from national socio-economic panel surveys in Australia, Britain and Germany, this paper analyzes the effects of individual preferences and choices on subjective well-being (SWB). It is shown that, in all three countries, preferences and choices relating to life goals/values,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008859059
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The optimal choice of a reference standard for income comparisons : indirect evidence from immigrants' return visits
Stichnoth, Holger - 2010
I propose two new tests of Falk and Knell's (2004) prediction that individuals' reference income increases with ability. To overcome the difficulty that the reference incomeis not observed in existing large data sets, I extend Falk and Knell's model to establish a link between immigrants'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824319
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Late-life decline in well-being across adulthood in Germany, the UK, and the US : something is seriously wrong at the end of life
Gerstorf, Denis; Ram, Nilam; Mayraz, Guy; Hidajat, Mira; … - 2010
Throughout adulthood and old age, levels of well-being appear to remain relatively stable. However, evidence is emerging that late in life well-being declines considerably. Using long-term longitudinal data of deceased participants in national samples from Germany, the UK, and the US, we examine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008825081