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She's Leaving Home : A Large Sample Investigation of the Empty Nest Syndrome
Piper, Alan - 2018
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920501
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Maternal Life Satisfaction and Child Outcomes : Are They Related?
Berger, Eva M.; Spiess, C. Katharina - 2009
three-year-old children as well as the socio-emotional behavior of five- to six-year-old children. We use data from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014200149
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Day-Care Expansion and Parental Subjective Well-Being : Evidence from Germany
Schober, Pia Sophia; Schmitt, Christian - 2013
This study investigates whether the expansion of day-care places for under-three-year-old children in East and West …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014151774
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Happiness : Before and After the Kids
Myrskylä, Mikko; Margolis, Rachel - 2014
Understanding how having children influences the parents’ subjective well-being ("happiness") has great potential to … pattern. Those who have children at older ages or have more education have a particularly positive happiness response to a … first birth, and although the first two children increase happiness, the third does not. The results are similar in Britain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014146493
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Perceived Insecurity - Deprivation Anxieties and Fears of Downward Mobility in the German Population
Schöneck, Nadine M. - 2012
The question of what our economy and standard of living will look like in the future is a topic that concerns many today. This article deals with expectations for the future in the German population with regard to economic prosperity and social risks. It seeks to assess the prevalence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013111732
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Lebenszufriedenheit und Einkommensreichtum : Eine empirische Analyse mit dem SOEP (Life Satisfaction and Income Richness: An Empirical Analysis Based on Data of the German Socioeco...
Hajek, André - 2011
In this study the relation between satisfaction with life and affluent income is analyzed by using cross-sectional and longitudinal data. The data used in this publication were made available by the German Socio Economic Panel Study (SOEP) at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128105
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Beyond GDP and Back : What is the Value-Added by Additional Components of Welfare Measurement?
de New (née Kassenboehmer), Sonja C. - 2011
Recently, building on the highly polarizing Stiglitz report, a growing literature suggests that statistical offices and applied researchers explore other aspects of human welfare apart from material well-being, such as job security, crime, health, environmental factors and subjective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130949
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So Far So Good : Age, Happiness, and Relative Income
Fitzroy, Felix R. - 2012
In a simple 2-period model of relative income under uncertainty, higher comparison income for the younger cohort can signal higher or lower expected lifetime relative income, and hence either increase or decrease well-being. With data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and the British...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113216
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Predicting the Trend of Well-Being in Germany : How Much Do Comparisons, Adaptation and Sociability Matter?
Bartolini, Stefano - 2011
Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we estimate the variation of subjective well-being experienced by Germans over the last two decades testing the role of some of the major correlates of people's well-being. Our results suggest that the variation of Germans' well-being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117311
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Does Unemployment Hurt Less if There is More of it Around? A Panel Analysis of Life Satisfaction in Germany and Switzerland
Oesch, Daniel - 2011
This paper examines the existence of a habituation effect to unemployment: Do the unemployed suffer less from job loss if unemployment is more widespread, if their own unemployment lasts longer and if unemployment is a recurrent experience? The underlying idea is that unemployment hysteresis may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121282