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The Socio-Economic Module of the Berlin Aging Study II (SOEP-BASE) : Description, Structure, and Questionnaire

Böckenhoff, Anke; Sassenroth, Denise; Kroh, Martin; … - 2013

The Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II) is a multidisciplinary study that allows for the investigation of how a multitude of health status factors as well as many other social and economic outcomes interplay. The sample consists of 1,600 participants aged 60 to 80, and 600 participants aged 20 to...

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A Behaviouristic Approach for Measuring Poverty : The Decomposition Approach - Empirical Illustrations for Germany 1995-2009

Faik, Jürgen - 2013

In this paper an alternative approach with regard to poverty measurement is discussed: the so-called decomposition … society's mean welfare level, does not exist, on principle, in the decomposition approach. Present author's own calculations … levels of the decomposition approach can be interpreted as upper limits for the “true” level of poverty, and, conversely, the …

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Poverty is a Public Bad : Panel Evidence from Subjective Well-Being Data

Welsch, Heinz - 2017

Previous research has found that subjective well-being (SWB) is lower for individuals classified as being in poverty. Using panel data for 39,239 individuals living in Germany from 2005-2013, we show that people's SWB is negatively correlated with the state-level poverty ratio while controlling...

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Do More of Those in Misery Suffer from Poverty, Unemployment or Mental Illness?

Fleche, Sarah - 2015

Studies of deprivation usually ignore mental illness. This paper uses household panel data from the USA, Australia, Britain and Germany to broaden the analysis. We ask first how many of those in the lowest levels of life-satisfaction suffer from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and...

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Poverty Profiles and Well-Being : Panel Evidence from Germany

Clark, Andrew - 2015

We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on the role of time. We use panel data on 49,000 individuals living in Germany from 1992 to 2012 to uncover three empirical relationships. First, life satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity...

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Endogeneity in the Relation between Poverty, Wealth and Life Satisfaction

Hajek, André - 2013

This publication concentrates on the complex interplay between poverty, wealth and life satisfaction. Main areas of life are quantified in a multidimensional approach of poverty and wealth: Individual income, current health, occupational autonomy or employment status and also the mentioned life...

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Rethinking the Relative Income Hypothesis

Blanco-Perez, Cristina - 2012

Income comparisons have been found to be important for individual health. However, the literature has so far looked solely at upward comparisons, disregarding the effects of comparisons with worse-off individuals. In this paper, I use a broad definition of relative income to test simultaneously...

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The Effect of Private Health Insurance on Self-Assessed Health Status and Health Satisfaction in Germany

Petilliot, René - 2017

In Germany, private health insurance covers more innovative and costly treatments than public insurance. Moreover, privately insured individuals are treated preferentially by doctors. In this article, I use subjective health data to examine whether these superior features of private insurance...

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Between-Person Disparities in the Progression of Late-Life Well-Being

Gerstorf, Denis; Ram, Nilam; Fauth, Elizabeth; Schupp, … - 2009

Throughout adulthood and old age, levels of well-being appear to remain relatively stable. In this chapter, we argue that focusing on a phase of life during which this positive picture does not necessarily prevail promises to help us better understand between-person disparities in the...

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Intensity of Time and Income Interdependent Multidimensional Poverty : Well-Being and Minimum 2DGAP – German Evidence

Merz, Joachim - 2011

Extending the traditional income poverty concept by multidimensional poverty has been of growing interest within the last years. This paper contributes with an analysis of interdependent multidimensional (IMD) poverty intensity of time and income, which in particular restricts social...

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