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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; … - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128949
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317554
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Do more of those in misery suffer from poverty, unemployment or mental illness?
Flèche, Sarah; Layard, Richard - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011314547
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What Drives Academic Data Sharing?
Fecher, Benedikt; Friesike, Sascha; Hebing, Marcel - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
Despite widespread support from policy makers, funding agencies, and scientific journals, academic researchers rarely make their research data available to others. At the same time, data sharing in research is attributed a vast potential for scientific progress. It allows the reproducibility of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185773
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What drives academic data sharing?
Fecher, Benedikt; Friesike, Sascha; Hebing, Marcel - 2014
Despite widespread support from policy makers, funding agencies, and scientific journals, academic researchers rarely make their research data available to others. At the same time, data sharing in research is attributed a vast potential for scientific progress. It allows the reproducibility of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352764
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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; … - 2016
This paper demonstrates how quality of life can be measured by plain text in a representative survey, the German Socio Economic Panel study (SOEP). Furthermore, the paper shows that problems that are difficult to monitor, especially problems like the state of the European Union, long-term...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011613464
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Worries across time and age in Germany: Bringing together open and close-ended questions
Rohrer, Julia M.; Bruemmer, Martin; Schupp, Jürgen; … - 2017
We investigate how worries in Germany change across time and age, drawing on both closed-ended questions (which typically list a number of worry items) and open-ended questions answered in text format. We find that relevant world events influence worries. For example, worries about peace peaked...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011674044
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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 … ago, the SOEP has included cognitive measures of wellbeing. In 2007, the SOEP included four items (happy, sad, angry …, afraid) as an affective measure of wellbeing. This paper examines similarities and differences between cognitive and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600789
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Do you really want to share everything? The wellbeing of work-linked couples
Hennecke, Juliane; Hetschko, Clemens - 2021
Work as well as family life are crucial sources of human wellbeing, which however often interfere. This is especially … success. Still, surprisingly little is known about the wellbeing of work-linked couples. Our study fills this gap by examining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012520402
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Measuring Wellbeing in the SOEP
Schimmack, Ulrich - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008
I define wellbeing as preference realization. Wellbeing can be measured with affective (the amount of pleasant versus … ago, the SOEP has included cognitive measures of wellbeing. In 2007, the SOEP included four items (happy, sad, angry …, afraid) as an affective measure of wellbeing. This paper examines similarities and differences between cognitive and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018698